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| Emittent | Gemeinde Langenaltheim (Municipality of Langenaltheim, Bavaria) |
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| Jahr | 1917 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Typeset notgeld on tan paper with a dense crosshatch guilloche underprint in blue-grey forming the central field, enclosed by a decorative letterpress border with scroll corner ornaments. The denomination '50' appears in large numerals at left and right, with a blue overprinted '50' underprint at centre; the issuer name heads the note above the central text block. Printer's imprint 'J. P. Himmer, Augsburg' and legal notice 'Gesetzlich geschützt.' appear below the frame. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain tan paper with a single hand-applied circular municipal seal in violet ink at centre. The seal bears the legend 'FREISTAAT BAYERN — GEMEINDE LANGENALTHEIM' around the circumference, enclosing a heraldic shield flanked by laurel branches at the base. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Langenaltheim is a small quarrying village in the Altmühl valley, and its wartime notgeld issue reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination Reichsmark coinage by 1917 — nickel and copper had been requisitioned for munitions production, leaving ordinary commercial transactions in rural communities functionally impossible without local substitutes. Himmer in Augsburg was a natural choice for Bavarian municipalities: an established regional press with the facilities to produce short-run official documents quickly.
The official seal was the primary — and thin — guarantee of authenticity. Counterfeiting a village's 50-Pfennig emergency scrip was hardly worth the effort.