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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Benneckenstein |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse lettering | Gegen Abgabe dieses Gutscheines zahlt die Stadthauptkasse Benneckenstein im Harz Fünf Pfennige an den Einlieferer Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach der vom Magistrate erlassenen Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. |
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Benneckenstein is a small town in the Harz mountains, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1919, its local magistrate issued emergency small-denomination paper — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the void left by hoarded metal coinage. The postwar coin shortage was severe enough that even a five-pfennig gap in daily transactions mattered to shopkeepers and market vendors. These hyper-local issues were often printed in tiny runs by local stationers or print shops, with no particular effort at anti-counterfeiting beyond a serial number.
The DeNG catalogue reference places this within the documented Benneckenstein series, though survival rates for notes of this size and fragility are predictably low.