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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda (Reuss-Obergreiz) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Zeulenroda 5 Zeulenroda den 16 Dezbr. 1918 Der Stadtgemeinde Vorstand 5 Pfennig |
| Reverse description | Light green note centred on the heraldic arms of Zeulenroda: a shield bearing a crowned lion's head emerging from a crenellated wall, surmounted by a merloned tower in orange-brick colouring. The shield is enclosed within a decorative foliate border, with vertical ornamental bands running along both lateral margins, each containing the denomination numeral '5' and the inscription 'PFENNIG' repeated at top and bottom. Corner squares bearing the numeral '5' appear at all four corners. |
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Zeulenroda was a small industrial town in the Reuss principality, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency — Notgeld — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage from circulation. Copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war economy, leaving everyday small transactions without a practical medium.
Reuss-Obergreiz itself ceased to exist as a political entity within months of this note's issue, dissolved in November 1918 along with the other German monarchies.