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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeindevorstand zu Triebes (Reuss j.L.), City of Triebes |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | Triebes, Reuß j.L. GUTSCHEIN über Fünf Pfennig Triebes, den 1. Februar 1919 Der Gemeindevorstand Bürgermeister. Nur gültig im Gemeindebeziet Triebes R.j.L. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 5 Pfennig In Triebes nichts Trübes nur liebes Soli ib es |
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Triebes was a small industrial town in the Reuss principality — one of the fragmented minor German states absorbed into Thuringia in 1920. This 5 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany and Austria between 1914 and 1921, driven by a chronic shortage of small-denomination coins as metal was requisitioned for the war effort and hoarding stripped what remained from circulation.
The issuing authority — "Gemeindevorstand," meaning the municipal council — reflects the hyper-local nature of this emergency currency. Bürgermeister Müller's signature gave it what legal standing it had, which was essentially local goodwill and practical necessity rather than any formal monetary authority.