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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries a central vignette of the Lindenberg town coat of arms — a crowned shield with a twin-towered red and blue church set above stylized waves — flanked on each side by the denomination numeral "25 Pf" in bold red Gothic script. Text in Fraktur letterpress to the left and right of the vignette states the note's validity conditions and redemption deadline. The underprint consists of a repeating pattern of heraldic motifs in pale ochre, the issuer's name and date "Lindenberg im Allgäu 1. Mai 1918" appear below the vignette above the printed authority line "Stadtmagistrat", with a manuscript signature of the acting Bürgermeister and a handwritten serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 25 Pf Kriegsnotgeld der Kgl. Bayr. Stadt Lindenberg im Allgäu |
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Lindenberg im Allgäu sits in the hat-making district of Bavaria, and its municipal emergency money — Notgeld — was among thousands of such issues that flooded Germany from 1916 onward as small coin disappeared from circulation, hoarded by a public that no longer trusted the war's outcome. The Stadtmagistrat issues of 1918 were purely functional stopgaps, authorized locally and accepted only within the issuing town.
Julius Ester was a local Allgäu artist, which was not unusual for Bavarian Notgeld — smaller municipalities frequently commissioned regional designers rather than professional printing houses.