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25 Pfennig Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal
| Issuer | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Uniform deep red note printed in black letterpress on red paper, framed by a rectangular border with ornamental corner rosettes and a continuous guilloche-style outer band. The issuer's name 'Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal.' appears in a curved gothic script header, with the denomination '25' numeral repeated at left and right, and the word 'Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfg.' in bold blackletter type at centre. A diagonal overprint reading 'Notausgabe' and a further diagonal text including month references ('April', 'Juli') cross the face, with a manuscript signature below the issuing authority line 'Die Klostergutsverwaltung:', and the printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg.' and copyright notice 'Gesetzlich geschützt.' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal. Gutschein über Fünfundzwanzig Pfg. 25 Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bis zum 31. Dezember 1919. Die Klostergutsverwaltung: Gesetzlich geschützt. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. Notausgabe |
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Ettal is a Benedictine abbey in Bavaria whose estate administration — the Klostergutsverwaltung — issued this note during the notgeld crisis of 1919, when small-denomination coinage had all but vanished from circulation. The abbey's farm operations required a functional medium of exchange for day-to-day transactions with workers and local suppliers. J. P. Himmer in Augsburg, a long-established regional printer with roots to 1842, handled a substantial volume of Bavarian notgeld work during this period and the production here is competent if modest.
Ettal's monastic economy gave the issuing authority an unusual degree of self-contained credibility — the estate itself backed the scrip rather than a municipal treasury.