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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinderat Ruhpolding (Municipality of Ruhpolding) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Ruhpolding 25 Pfennig I. Bürgermeister: Kassenverwalter: Gemeinderat Ruhpolding, 5. April 1921 |
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| Reverse lettering | Giltig bis 1. Jan. 1922 Hier siehst du Ruhpoldings Entwurf des Wappens; Er warf aber manchen Schatten! |
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Ruhpolding is a small Bavarian village in the Chiemgau Alps, and its municipal council issued this Notgeld series during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Germany in the early Weimar years. Coin metal had been hoarded or melted, and central authorities were slow to fill the gap — so thousands of municipalities printed their own fractional notes, legally permissible under emergency provisions.
Ruhpolding's issues are among the more modestly produced Bavarian village series, without the elaborate artistic ambitions of some contemporary Notgeld campaigns that were printed speculatively for collector sale rather than genuine local use.