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2 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Witten |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (0.02) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light violet-grey paper with all text printed in black letterpress. The serial number appears at the top in a bold hand-stamped typeface, followed by the denomination numeral '2' flanked on both sides in large bold figures, with the legend 'Gutschein über Pfennig' in mixed roman and blackletter script centered between them. The issuing authority and date are rendered in blackletter script across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr. Gutschein über 2 Pfennig 2 Witten, im November 1919. Der Magistrat. |
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Witten am Ruhr was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Kleingeldscheine in 1919 to cover the catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coinage — metal having been systematically redirected into the war economy between 1914 and 1918. The Magistrat issued these notes under emergency authority, not as a banking function. At 2 Pfennig, this is among the lowest denominations ever produced in German notgeld, small enough that even at the time it bordered on the impractical.
The DeNG reference places it within a documented series for Witten, suggesting multiple varieties exist — the "f" suffix indicating a specific paper or print variant within type W49.3.