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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Lindau im Bodensee |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed on a light grey-green ground within a decorative dotted border frame, the obverse centres on a square vignette rendered in warm brown, yellow, and blue tones illustrating the stern of a sailing vessel with anchor above stylised waves. The denomination numeral '25' appears in rose-pink at upper left and upper right, flanking the word 'PFENNIG' at top centre, while validity and payment inscriptions occupy the lower register alongside the Stadt-Magistrat designation and a manuscript signature. The printer's imprint 'Dr. Karl Höhn Lindau i.B.' runs along the bottom margin, with the serial number printed below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | DAS LEBEN · EIN · KAMPF 25 KRIEGS · NOTGELD · DER · STADT · LINDAU · B |
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Lindau's 1919 Notgeld issue is a product of the severe coin shortage that gripped Germany in the final years of the war and its immediate aftermath — municipal authorities across the country were effectively forced into the currency business, printing low-denomination emergency scrip because Reichsbank coin had either been hoarded, melted, or simply never reached circulation in sufficient volume. Dr. Karl Höhn was a local Lindau printer, not a specialist security press, which is exactly the point: these notes were produced fast, cheap, and close to home.
G. Haid's involvement as designer gives the issue a degree of local artistic identity uncommon in purely utilitarian Notgeld.