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50 Pfennigs Wiggensbach; Anton Prestel Burgbräu
| Issuer | Anton Prestel Burgbräu, Wiggensbach |
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| Size | 75 x 43.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Orange-toned note printed in black letterpress on marbled paper. To the left, a circular vignette contains a pen-and-ink style illustration of a castle or fortified structure set among trees and rocky terrain. To the right, the denomination '50 Pfg.' is set in large Gothic (Fraktur) blackletter type, flanked above by 'Gutschein' and below by the issuer's name 'Anton Prestel / Burgbräu / Wiggensbach' in bold Gothic script. |
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| Protection description | Marbled paper stock with an intricate mottled orange pattern throughout, serving as an anti-counterfeiting measure. |
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Wiggensbach is a small market village in the Allgäu region of Bavaria, and this 50 Pfennig Notgeld note was issued by a private brewery — Anton Prestel's Burgbräu — almost certainly during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany between 1916 and the early 1920s. Breweries, sawmills, and country estates across rural Bavaria issued their own emergency scrip during this period when the Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation.
The presence of a watermark on a note of this modest size is worth noting — most rural Notgeld issues used plain paper, and the security feature here suggests either a supplier with better stock or a deliberate attempt to deter local forgery.