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2 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Gronau i.H. (City of Gronau in Hannover) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (0.02) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in green on plain buff cardboard stock and is framed by a double-ruled decorative border with stylised corner ornaments. The upper panel carries the issuing authority inscription in two lines, followed by a central field displaying the large numeral "2" above the denomination and note type in two lines. The year of issue appears in a lower panel within the border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain, consisting of unprinted buff cardboard without any text, vignette, or ornamental device, consistent with the austere emergency-issue character of this Notgeld piece. |
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Gronau in Hannover — a small town near Springe — issued this cardboard Kleingeldersatz in 1917 at the height of the wartime coin shortage that stripped Germany's pockets of copper and zinc. Municipal authorities across the Reich were authorized to fill the gap with locally printed pasteboard tokens, and thousands of Gemeinden did exactly that. The 2 Pfennig denomination is among the more awkward to assign practical value to, suggesting this was issued as part of a set covering the smallest change rather than out of any pressing circulation need for that specific amount.