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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Oberammergau, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein neber 25 Pf Dieser Gutschein wird nach dem 1. Oktober 1922 nicht mehr eingelöst. 1. Juli 1921 Der Gemeinderat Ober-Ammergau Bürgermeister |
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| Reverse lettering | 25 Pf Ober-Ammergau 1922 |
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Oberammergau's 1921 notgeld issue came during the same year as the town's famous Passion Play — performed every decade since 1634 as a vow following a devastating plague. The municipality almost certainly timed the scrip's release to coincide with the influx of pilgrims and tourists that the Play draws, using local emergency currency as both a practical necessity during the inflationary crisis and, frankly, as a souvenir opportunity.
Brendamour, Simhart & Co. were among Munich's more accomplished chromolithographers of the period, responsible for high-quality notgeld across Bavaria.