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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Witten |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. Gutschein über 1 Pfennig Witten, im November 1919 Der Magistrat. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet ink stamp of the Polizeiverwaltung der Stadt Witten applied to the reverse as a validation mark. |
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Witten's municipal 1 Pfennig notgeld from 1919 belongs to the enormous wave of small-denomination emergency paper issued by German towns when wartime coin hoarding left everyday commerce paralyzed. At one Pfennig, this is about as low as paper money gets — a denomination that existed on paper precisely because no one could spare the metal equivalent. The Magistrat der Stadt Witten had neither the facility nor the mandate of a central bank; these notes were printed locally, validated by official stamp, and expected to disappear quickly once coinage returned to circulation.
The DeNG reference places this within a documented local series, suggesting at least minor variation existed across the Witten issues — the "a" suffix indicating a specific subtype, likely a paper stock or stamp difference from its siblings.