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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Ingolstadt |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 83 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress Gutschein (emergency money voucher) on cream paper with an ornate guilloche underprint framing the central text panel. Two circular denomination medallions bearing '25 Pfennig' flank the centre, with the issuer name 'Stadtgemeinde Ingolstadt' arched across the top and the validity notice restricted to the Stadtbezirk Ingolstadt printed in the upper left. The date 'Ingolstadt, 2. April 1917' appears at the bottom centre, flanked by two handwritten facsimile signatures with their respective official titles. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a blue guilloche underprint matching the obverse layout, presenting two circular '25 Pfennig' medallions flanking a central text panel repeating 'Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig' in Gothic script. The design is uncluttered, relying entirely on the decorative guilloche border and the denomination text for visual structure. An anti-counterfeiting notice 'Nachahmung strafbar.' is printed in small Gothic script along the lower margin. |
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Ingolstadt's 1917 Notgeld issue came out of the same wartime small-change crisis that hit nearly every German municipality once silver and copper coinage was hoarded or melted almost immediately after mobilization began in 1914. By 1917, the shortage was severe enough that hundreds of towns printed their own emergency pfennig notes rather than wait for central supply to catch up — which it didn't, not reliably, until well after the armistice.
Local printing kept costs down but quality variable. Paper Notgeld at this denomination was always marginal currency — accepted grudgingly within the issuing town's limits and often refused just kilometers away.