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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Altenburg (Saxe-Altenburg), City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Salmon-pink notgeld on paper with decorative dark green guilloche borders and ornamental corner rosettes bearing the numeral '5'. The large blackletter title 'Gut-Schein' dominates the upper portion above the denomination '5 Pfennig' printed in bold green type, with a circular municipal arms vignette at upper centre. The issuing authority 'Der Stadtrat' appears below the central text block, followed by two manuscript facsimile signatures, with the printer's imprint 'C.G. Naumann G.m.b.H. Leipzig' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gut-Schein für 5 Pfennig Nur giltig im Stadtbezirk Altenburg bis zum Friedensschlusse. Altenburg, den 1. April 1917 Der Stadtrat |
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Altenburg issued this note in 1917 under the Stadtrat's authority as wartime metal shortages made even the smallest copper and zinc coins functionally unavailable — a predicament shared by hundreds of German municipalities that year. The result was an explosion of Kriegsnotgeld at the Pfennig level, much of it printed by Leipzig firms already equipped for commercial jobbing work. C. G. Naumann was one such house, better known for book and commercial printing than security work, which shows in the modest production values typical of this tier of emergency coinage substitutes.
Saxe-Altenburg had ceased to exist as an independent duchy just two years after this note was issued, absorbed into Thuringia in 1920.