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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Oberammergau, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette depicts a panoramic view of the village of Oberammergau set against a mountain backdrop, rendered in fine letterpress line engraving in brown on cream paper. The denomination numeral '75' appears in large decorative type at left and right, flanked by stylized floral and foliate ornaments. Two facsimile signatures and a handwritten serial number appear below the vignette, with a two-line validity notice in a ruled border at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette presents two figures in traditional Bavarian costume flanking a stylized tree, printed in dark brown, with scattered smaller figural vignettes in gold/ochre tones distributed across the field on both sides. The denomination numeral '75' appears in bold decorative type at left and right corners, with the inscriptions 'PFENNIG NOTGELD' in two columns at upper centre. The place name 'OBERAMMERGAU' is inscribed below the central group, and the printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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Oberammergau's notgeld issues of 1921 are among the most deliberately artistic of the Bavarian municipal series. Brendamour, Simhart & Co. — a Munich firm with a strong reputation in fine art reproduction and lithography — produced these for a community whose entire economic identity was already built around the Passion Play, performed every ten years since 1634 as fulfillment of a plague vow. The 1920 Passion Play cycle had just concluded when these notes were printed, and the municipality was capitalizing on the international attention it had drawn.
Collector demand drove most of this series out of circulation almost immediately. Genuinely circulated examples are the exception.