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30 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Gemeinderat Ruhpolding (Municipality of Ruhpolding, Bavaria) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on a light green swirl-patterned underprint, enclosed within a decorative border of alternating ovals and dots. The title inscription in Gothic Fraktur script runs across the top panel, while two symmetrical cornucopia-style ornamental vignettes, embellished with edelweiss blossoms, flank the large numeral '30' at centre. Below the denomination numeral, the word 'Pfennig' appears in bold Fraktur lettering, with the issuing authority, date of issue, and two facsimile manuscript signatures of the Bürgermeister and Kassenverwalter arranged in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | Giltig bis 1. Jan. 1922 "Überall Notgeld im Verkehr, Es geht solange nimmermehr" |
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Ruhpolding is a small Alpine resort village in Upper Bavaria, and its Gemeinderat (municipal council) issued this Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Municipalities, businesses, and even individual farms printed emergency currency because Reichsbank coins had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply insufficient in volume for daily transactions.
Bavarian municipal Notgeld of this period was often printed in short runs by local print shops, which is why paper quality and registration vary considerably within the same series. Ruhpolding's issues are not among the extensively documented collector series; survival is more a matter of chance than deliberate preservation.