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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | City of Nimptsch (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green note printed on a fine guilloche underprint of repeating geometric floral motifs. The text is rendered in ornate Fraktur blackletter script, with the denomination 'Fünf Pfennig' in large display type at centre, surmounted by the heading 'Gutschein der Stadt Nimptsch über'. Below the denomination, the issue date and the authorising body 'Der Magistrat' are inscribed, followed by six manuscript signatures of municipal officials, and a redemption guarantee clause at the foot reading 'Einlösung seitens der Stadt Nimptsch bis zum 31. Dezember 1920 gewährleistet.' |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green on the same fine guilloche underprint of repeating geometric and floral motifs covering the entire surface. At centre, a large white-reserve vignette contains the town arms of Nimptsch — a crenellated tower surmounted by two addorsed rampant animals above a shield, enclosed within an elaborate wavy guilloche cartouche. A serial number is typeset in black at the upper margin. |
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Nimptsch — now Niemcza in southwestern Poland — was a small Silesian town of a few thousand residents when it issued this note in 1919. Like hundreds of German municipalities that year, it was forced into emergency currency production by a nationwide coin shortage so severe that local authorities could not make change. The Reichsbank acknowledged the crisis but could not resolve it quickly, leaving Gemeinden and Städte to commission their own Kleingeldersatz from commercial printers.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich handled a large volume of this municipal work across Bavaria and beyond. The serial number is the only security concession — entirely adequate for a note whose entire purpose was making small transactions possible at the butcher or the market.