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20 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Eichstätt |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | J. P. Himmer, Augsburg |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on red paper with a fine cross-hatched underprint, the note is framed by a decorative serrated border with foliate corner ornaments. The denomination numerals "20" appear at left and right flanking the central text, with a circular official stamp in blue-violet applied at left. The printer's imprint "J. P. Himmer, Augsburg" appears below the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadtmagistrat Eichstätt. 20 Gutschein 20 über zwanzig Pfennige. Eichstätt, 20. Januar 1917. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. (Translation: City Magistrate Eichstätt. 20 Voucher 20 for twenty pfennigs. Eichstätt, January 20, 1917. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg.) |
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Eichstätt's Stadtmagistrat issued this note in 1917, deep into the coin shortage that forced hundreds of German municipalities to produce their own fractional emergency currency — Kleingeldersatz — as federal metal supplies were absorbed by the war effort. The Bavarian episcopal city was hardly unique in doing so, but the J. P. Himmer imprint places it within a tight cluster of Swabian-printed Notgeld issued for Upper Bavarian issuers that year.
Himmer was a well-established Augsburg printer with prior experience in commercial and official document work, which gave these municipal issues a more finished character than some contemporaries.