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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat zu Orlamünde (City Council of Orlamünde) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and beige notgeld printed by letterpress on plain paper. A central oval vignette bears the large Gothic inscription '5 Pfennig' flanked by two crowned cartouches enclosing numeral '5', all set within an elaborate laurel and ribbon underprint. The town's circular heraldic seal appears in the upper left corner, with the issuing authority 'Der Stadtrat zu Orlamünde S.A.' across the lower field, above a manuscript facsimile signature; the anti-counterfeiting warning 'Nachahmungen dieses Gutscheines werden strafrechtlich verfolgt' is split across the lower left and right margins. |
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| Reverse description | Green and beige reverse, sharing the same ornamental laurel and crowned cartouche design as the obverse, with the central Gothic legend '5 Pfennig' and the year inscription 'Ausgegeben im Kriegsjahr 1917.' within the central oval. A three-line redemption notice is printed at the top in black, and the validity clause 'Nur gültig bis zum 31. Dezember 1919.' appears beneath the central vignette; the printer's imprint 'Schneider & Co. Altenburg, S.A.' is set in small type along the bottom margin. |
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Orlamünde is a small town on the Saale in Thuringia, historically notable mostly for the medieval counts who gave rise to the Hohenzollern line — not for its financial institutions. By 1917, Germany's small-denomination metal coinage had been hoarded or melted, and thousands of municipalities were forced to print their own emergency fractional notes. This is one of them: a Notgeld issue, filling the gap left by vanished Pfennig coins in the third year of the war.
Schneider & Co. in Altenburg handled enormous volumes of such municipal commissions across Thuringia, which makes the printing quality predictably competent but not distinctive.