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20 Reichspfennig Scheidegg im Allgäu
| Issuer | Gemeinde Scheidegg i. Allgäu |
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| Year | 1945 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on light blue-grey paper in black letterpress, the note is laid out in a plain typographic design within a single-rule border. The numeral '20' appears in a box at the upper left, with the Gothic-script legend 'Gutschein' centrally positioned at the top, and the denomination letter 'M' enclosed in a box at the upper right. Below, a ruled dividing line separates the denomination text from the issuing authority's inscription, which includes a serial number box printed with horizontal lines at lower right and the series designation 'B/1218' beneath it. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on the same light blue-grey paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Gemeinde-issued Notgeld from the final weeks of the Third Reich. Scheidegg, a small market town in the Bavarian Alps near the Austrian border, was among hundreds of municipalities forced to print their own emergency fractional currency as the Reichsbank's distribution network collapsed in early 1945. Allied advances had severed supply lines, and coin shortages — already severe after years of metal requisitions for the war effort — became acute.
Notes of this type rarely survived in quantity; most were redeemed quickly once occupation currency took hold, and many were simply discarded.