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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Schleiz (City of Schleiz) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Reverse description | Green and black printed reverse within a decorative guilloche border. A central octagonal vignette presents a detailed landscape view of the Bergkirche (hilltop church) in Schleiz, with figures in the foreground, a large tree to the left, and the church steeple rising prominently against a lightly shaded sky. The denomination numeral '5' is printed in large bold type within solid black panels at the left and right sides of the central vignette. The caption 'Bergkirche' is inscribed in plain Roman type above the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | Bergkirche 5 5 |
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Schleiz, a small town in the Thuringian principality of Reuss, issued this note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1919, when coin shortages following Germany's defeat left municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional currency. The Reichsbank could not keep pace with demand for low-denomination coinage, so hundreds of German towns printed their own stopgap paper — this 5 Pfennig being one of the more minor examples, covering a value so small that even metal had rarely been pressed into it during normal times.
Reuss itself had only just ceased to exist as a sovereign state, absorbed into the newly formed Thuringia in 1920.