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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Altusried (Market Town of Altusried) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on buff paper, the obverse centres on a large decorative medallion enclosing the bold numeral '3' in an ornate gothic script, surrounded by a fine guilloche-style circular border with foliate ornaments at the cardinal points. The text 'Gut' and 'für' appears in gothic lettering in the upper left and upper right corners respectively, with 'Drei Pfennig' and 'Altusried' inscribed in gothic script below the medallion. The date '1920' is printed at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on buff paper, the reverse bears a central heraldic vignette of a town coat of arms — a shield displaying a castle or fortified tower — enclosed within an elaborate decorative frame of scrolling foliate ornaments. A handwritten serial number appears at the top of the note, with the issuer's name 'Marktgemeinde Altusried' inscribed in gothic lettering below the central vignette. |
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Altusried is a small market town in the Allgäu district of Bavaria, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the coin vacuum left by wartime metal shortages and postwar hoarding. Three-pfennig denominations are among the lowest values encountered in German notgeld, and most municipal issuers skipped them entirely, which makes Altusried's decision to print at this denomination worth noting.
The physical format reflects the denomination: tiny even by notgeld standards.