25 Pfennig

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.