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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Mühldorf am Inn |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Small-format Notgeld note printed in black on plain white paper with perforated edges. The upper left carries a circular gear or wheel vignette, with the large numeral '3' and the denomination 'Pfennig' to the right. The centre bears the issuing authority inscription 'STADTRAT MÜHLDORF' within a curved banner, below which the validity clause 'Giltig bis zum 31. MÄRZ 1921.' is printed in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, printed on uncoated beige-grey paper with a visible fibrous texture and perforated borders on all sides, bearing no text, vignette, or ornamental device. |
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Mühldorf am Inn, a small Bavarian market town on the Inn River, issued Notgeld in small Pfennig denominations during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1917 onward. Municipal councils across Bavaria scrambled to produce emergency fractional currency when copper and nickel disappeared into the war economy — the Stadtrat here was doing exactly what dozens of comparable towns were doing simultaneously, with whatever printing resources were locally available.
The Grabowski reference M50.1c places this within a documented series, though low-denomination paper Pfennig notes from small issuers were discarded rather than saved, which accounts for their relative scarcity despite large original print runs.