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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Stammbach (Market Town of Stammbach) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground with a black letterpress-printed rectangular border composed of interlocking geometric and chain-link ornamental elements, with squared corner devices. The denomination numeral '5' appears in black at left and right, with a large red overprinted '5' at centre forming an underprint behind the central text block. The issuer name is set in bold blackletter type at the top, with the voucher text and denomination legend in roman type below, and the place name with dual dates at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Circular violet rubber municipality stamp applied to the reverse as authentication |
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Stammbach is a small market town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria — the sort of municipality that would never have issued paper money under ordinary circumstances. This note exists because of the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, as metal was diverted to the war effort and coins of low denomination effectively vanished from daily commerce. Thousands of German towns and municipalities printed their own emergency Kleingeldscheine, and Stammbach was simply one of them.
The official stamp served as the primary authentication device — without it, the note had no legal standing even locally.