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20 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Königshofen im Grabfeld |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 PFENNIGE · STUND · WIRD · GESCHAFFT · STATT · ACHT · ZEHN · VATERLAND · BALD · WIEDER · UND · WIRD · VOM LUITPOLDBRUNNEN · DER STADT KÖNIGSHOFEN · No 07733 |
| Reverse description | Black on yellow-beige paper. A central oval vignette contains a standing armoured soldier or lansquenet figure carrying a pike and banner, rendered in detailed letterpress style. The denomination '20' appears in large script at both upper corners with 'PFENNIGE' at top centre. A circular legend surrounds the oval, and a lower rectangular panel bears the issuing authority inscription with a handwritten facsimile signature. |
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Königshofen im Grabfeld is a small Franconian town in what is now northern Bavaria, and like hundreds of German municipalities it issued emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the currency chaos that followed the First World War. The Stadtrat, the town council, had no banking infrastructure and no formal printing authority; these small-denomination notes existed purely to plug the coin shortage that made everyday commerce nearly impossible by 1917–18.
At 20 Pfennig, this note was strictly local tender, redeemable only within the issuing municipality and worthless beyond it.