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25 Pfennig

Issuer Stadtrat Eggenfelden (City Council of Eggenfelden)
Year 1921
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Value 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25)
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Obverse lettering Stadt Eggenfelden
25
Reverse description The reverse carries a lithographic vignette in the manner of K. Olshausen-Schönberger, showing a farmer guiding a plough drawn by a single ox across a field, rendered in black line work with ochre and tan washes. To the upper right, a framed cartouche contains the validity clause in Gothic script, above the printed authority name and two facsimile manuscript signatures. The artist's signature 'K. Olshausen-Schönberger.' appears in small type at the lower right corner.
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Eggenfelden is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it turned to Notgeld during the early 1920s as the Reichsbank's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply inadequate to the volume of transactions in an inflating economy. These locally issued emergency notes were authorized at the municipal level, with city councils acting as guarantor.

K. Olshausen-Schönberger was a Munich-based artist who produced designs for multiple Bavarian Notgeld issuers during this period. The reference suffix ".1-1/2" suggests two printing variants exist within this single type.

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