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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Moosburg (City of Moosburg an der Isar) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Moosburg. Pfennige Notgeld! – Ist dir and'res lieber, Arbeit! – Und verdräng' die Schieber. |
| Reverse description | Pale green and dark red note with elaborate curvilinear guilloche underprint panels flanking a central oval vignette. The vignette presents a detailed letterpress view of a historic round tower with a conical spire, partially obscured by trees, rendered in a fine linear illustrative style. Below the oval, a decorative ribbon cartouche carries the inscription 'PFENNIGE' in bold capitals, while the denomination numeral '20' appears in large blackletter figures within dark red rectangular cartouches at the lower left and right corners. |
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Moosburg an der Isar was among thousands of German municipalities forced into printing their own small-denomination emergency currency — Notgeld — when the postwar coin shortage made everyday transactions nearly impossible. The 20 Pfennig denomination was particularly necessary: federal coinage in small values had all but vanished from circulation by 1921, hoarded or melted, and the Reichsbank offered no practical solution for market towns like Moosburg.
Printed locally by J. Pichlmayr, this is purely a provincial production — no outside security printer, no watermarked stock. The issuing authority and the press were neighbors.