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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktmagistrat Ebersberg |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | MARKTMAGISTRAT EBERSBERG. GUTSCHEIN über 5 fünf Pfennige 5 EBERSBERG, 15. DEZEMBER 1916. J.P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries no independently designed composition; the thin paper stock allows a see-through impression of the obverse letterpress elements — including the sawtooth border, scrollwork cartouche, and denomination numerals — to register faintly on the plain brownish reverse surface. |
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Ebersberg is a small Bavarian market town east of Munich, and this 5 Pfennig note belongs to the vast flood of German municipal small-change paper — Kleingeldscheine — that overwhelmed local administrations from 1916 onward as coin metal was diverted to the war effort. The Marktmagistrat issued it on its own authority, as hundreds of comparable bodies across the Reich were doing simultaneously.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg was a reliable regional printer with a long track record in commercial and official print work, which made it a natural choice for surrounding Bavarian municipalities with no access to specialist security printers.