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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ruhpolding (Municipality of Ruhpolding) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 72 × 44 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeinde Ruhpolding Gutschein Pfg. 5 Pfg. Gemeinderat Ruhpolding / 19. Oktober 1920 1. Bürgermeister: Kassenverwaltung: |
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| Reverse lettering | Gemeinde Ruhpolding Fünf Pfennig "Das Beste ist es auf der Welt, Daß Tod und Teufel nimmt kein Geld, Sonst müßte oft ein armer G'sell Für einen Reichen in die Höll." Einlösung des Scheins erfolgt 2 Monate nach Aufruf. Umtauschstelle: Gemeindliche Zentralkasse Ruhpolding. Nachahmung des Kassenscheins wird gesetzlich bestraft. GEBR. PARCUS, MÜNCHEN. |
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Ruhpolding is a small Bavarian resort village in the Chiemgau Alps, and its decision to issue emergency currency in 1920 places this note squarely within the Kleingeldersatz phenomenon that swept German municipalities after the First World War. Coin shortages — driven by metal hoarding, wartime requisition, and postwar economic dislocation — forced thousands of communities, however minor, to print their own fractional substitutes. Ruhpolding had neither a bank nor significant industry; it issued because it had no other choice.
Gebrüder Parcus was a well-regarded Munich commercial printer responsible for a substantial volume of Bavarian Notgeld, which accounts for the relatively clean typographic execution on pieces this small.