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99 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Stammbach (Market Town of Stammbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in ochre, brown, and blue on a light ground, with a dark serrated outer border enclosing the entire design. To the left, a large stylised numeral '99' in ornate Jugendstil script is flanked by sprigs of pine cones and foliage, while a decorative ribbon scroll in blue and gold sweeps across the upper register. The central panel carries the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter script — 'Marktgemeinde Stammbach' — above a validity clause in cursive script dated 'Stammbach, 1. Sept. 1921', accompanied by the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature. The printer's imprint 'DRUCK VON J P HIMMER AUGSBURG' appears in the bottom margin below the outer border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a scenic vignette of a Bavarian alpine landscape framed by a naturalistic border of pine branches and cones rendered in brown and ochre tones. The central panorama, printed in blue and white with fine line work, shows a broad valley with conifer forests, a small settlement, and snow-capped mountain peaks receding into a pale blue sky. A rocky outcrop at upper left anchors the composition, giving the scene a window-like pictorial effect characteristic of German Notgeld artistic production of the early 1920s. |
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Stammbach is a small market town in Upper Franconia, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — to paper over the chronic small-change shortages that plagued the early Weimar Republic. The 99 Pfennig denomination is characteristic of the period's creative workarounds: by staying just under 1 Mark, issuers could sidestep certain regulatory thresholds while still providing a practically useful denomination.
J. P. Himmer in Augsburg was a regional workhorse printer for Bavarian Notgeld, handling commissions from dozens of small municipalities simultaneously. Their output was competent but high-volume.