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50 Pfennig Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal
| Issuer | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Green notgeld on textured paper with a fine guilloche underprint covering the entire field. A black letterpress border with ornamental corner rosettes frames the central text panel, with the issuer name at top and denomination in Gothic script at centre. A diagonal overprint reads "Notausgabe" with month indicators "April" and "Juli", and a manuscript signature appears below the redemption clause. |
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| Obverse lettering | Klostergutsverwaltung Ettal. Gutschein über fünfzig Pfennige. Die Einlösung dieses Scheines erfolgt bis zum 31. Dezember 1917. Die Klostergutsverwaltung Notausgabe Gesetzlich geschützt. J. P. Himmer, Augsburg. |
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Ettal Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in the Bavarian Alps, operated its own estate administration — the Klostergutsverwaltung — which issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that gripped wartime Germany from 1916 onward. Municipal, institutional, and even private issuers flooded the country with Kleingeldersatz, as the Reichsbank struggled to keep fractional coinage in circulation with metal diverted to munitions production.
J. P. Himmer of Augsburg, a long-established regional printer, handled a significant volume of Bavarian Notgeld commissions during this period. The monastery's note would have served workers and tenants on abbey lands — a genuinely local instrument with a circulation probably measured in dozens of hands.