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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schleiz (City of Schleiz) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green notgeld voucher with an ornate guilloche border surrounding the entire note. The denomination numeral "5" appears in the upper corners, with the blackletter text "Gutschein der Stadt Schleiz" at the top and the large denomination inscription "Fünf Pfennige" in bold blackletter script dominating the centre. At lower left, an embossed circular town seal of Schleiz is present, accompanied by the issuing authority line "Der Stadtgemeindevorstand" with a manuscript signature, and the date "Schleiz, den 25. August 1919" at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Green notgeld reverse with a decorative guilloche border matching the obverse. The central vignette presents a line-engraved view of the alte Münze (old mint building) of Schleiz, a tower structure with an onion dome, captioned below as "Die alte Münze". Flanking the central vignette are two green panels carrying a two-part rhyming legend in blackletter script, with the denomination numeral "5" repeated at lower left and lower right. |
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Schleiz notgeld from the 1918–19 period belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued not out of monetary ambition but because small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded by a civilian population grinding through the final year of the war. Town councils across Thuringia were left to fill the gap themselves, printing whatever their local presses could manage.
Stadt Schleiz sits in the Vogtland, then still within the Principality of Reuss-Schleiz. The political changeover to Weimar-era governance happened mid-series, meaning notes from this issue may have been authorized under two entirely different administrations within months of each other.