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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Bunzlau (City of Bunzlau, Lower Silesia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#B103.6a Va#1025.05.20 |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 5 5 5 Fünf Pfennig 5 Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920. Einlösung erfolgt durch die Stadthauptkasse. Bunzlau, den 26. November 1919 Der Magistrat |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 5 5 5 5 Pfg. 5 Pfg. Stadt Bunzlau L. FERNBACH BUNZLAU |
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Bunzlau's 1919 emergency currency belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany as the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The city's own printer, L. Fernbach, handled production locally — an arrangement that was common for these low-value issues and kept turnaround fast, but also meant quality control varied across runs, which is reflected in the multiple varieties cataloged under Grabowski B103.
Bunzlau remained a German city until the Potsdam Agreement transferred all of Lower Silesia east of the Oder-Neisse line to Poland in 1945, at which point it was renamed Bolesławiec and its German population expelled.