Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt |
|---|---|
| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 5 Fünf Pfennig Der Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt Reihe IV CARL FLEMMING AG., GLOGAU UND BERLIN. |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 5 fünf Pfennig Die Gültigkeit dieses Scheines erlischt einen Monat nach öffentl. Aufforderung zur Einlösung. Der Magistrat der Stadt Fraustadt. DER MAGISTRAT DER STADT FRAUSTADT |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Fraustadt — now Wschowa in western Poland — was a small Silesian town whose municipal government, like hundreds of others across Germany, was forced into emergency currency production when wartime metal shortages made coin manufacture untenable. The Reichsbank's centralized response was slow, and local magistrates filled the gap themselves. Carl Flemming AG, the Glogau and Berlin printer behind this note, was a prolific supplier of Kriegsnotgeld to small municipalities across Silesia and Brandenburg throughout 1916–1918.
Flemming's output for minor issuers tends toward the utilitarian end of notgeld printing, with little of the elaborate regional imagery that later collector-oriented series would exploit. This is functional municipal paper, not a souvenir.