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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Melle (City of Melle) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned notgeld on paper with an ornamental cross-and-flower border framing the entire note. A left-hand panel encloses the large numeral '5' above the word 'Pfennig' in bold blackletter type, separated from the main field by a vertical rule. The right-hand panel carries the issuer name 'Stadt Melle.' in gothic script at the top, the denomination text 'Gutschein über fünf Pfennig.' centred with decorative wave rules, the place and date 'Melle, 23. Februar 1917.' in the lower field, and a manuscript signature of the Magistrat to the right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Pfennig Stadt Melle. Gutschein über fünf Pfennig. Der Magistrat. Melle, 23. Februar 1917. F. E. HAAG IN MELLE. |
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Melle is a small town in Lower Saxony, and this note is exactly what you'd expect from a minor municipal issuer in 1917 — locally printed, locally spent, and produced in direct response to the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany as the war ground on. The Reichsbank's metal coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-war, hoarded or melted, forcing hundreds of German municipalities to print their own Kleingeldersatz.
F. E. Haag was a local printer, not a specialist security firm. That matters for condition expectations — the printing quality on Melle notgeld is modest, and ink strike inconsistencies are common across the series.