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4.2 Pfennig Gold / 1⁄100 US-Dollar Verband Süddeutscher Textilarbeitgeber - Landesgruppe Nordbayern
| Issuer | Verband Süddeutscher Textil-Arbeitgeber, Landesgruppe Nordbayern |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note enclosed within a thin double-ruled rectangular border. A yellow guilloche underprint runs horizontally across the centre of the note. The heading reads 'Wertbeständiger Notgeldschein' in bold letterpress, followed by the issuer's name and the value legend '4.2 Pfennig-Gold = 1/100 Dollar' in large bold type. A lengthy redemption text in smaller letterpress occupies the lower half, with the place and date 'HOF, 26. November 1923' at lower left, and two manuscript signatures at lower right above the printed issuer name. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted and presents a plain cream paper surface, showing only the faint letterpress impression of the obverse text bleeding through the thin paper stock. A simple single-ruled rectangular border frames the otherwise blank field. |
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This is emergency notgeld issued by an employers' association — specifically the Northern Bavarian regional branch of the South German Textile Employers' Federation — which puts it in a narrow category of Weimar-era scrip issued not by municipalities or banks but by industrial trade bodies paying their own workers. The dual denomination in both Goldpfennig and US cents reflects the practice adopted in late 1923 of anchoring emergency currency to stable foreign values as the Reichsmark hyperinflation made paper face values meaningless within days of printing.
Hof an der Saale was a genuine center of Bavarian textile manufacturing, which gives the issuer's regional specificity real economic logic rather than administrative convenience.