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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Reichenbach im Vogtland |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | Gra#R20.3a Va#:5985.05.10 |
| Obverse description | Yellow-ochre and black bicolour Notgeld voucher with a bold black border and decorative corner ornaments in the Jugendstil manner. The word 'Gutschein über' is set in Gothic blackletter at centre, flanked left and right by the written denomination 'fünf' and 'Pfennig', with a large ornate numeral '5' on a guilloche cartouche at centre. An embossed municipal seal appears to the left, and a handwritten Bürgermeister signature is inscribed to the lower right; the validity clause 'Gültig nur im Stadtbezirke Reichenbach i. V.' runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | No |
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Reichenbach im Vogtland was one of hundreds of German municipalities that scrambled to print emergency small-denomination notes in 1919 as the postwar coinage shortage made even Pfennig transactions functionally impossible. The Stadtgemeinde — the municipal authority itself, not a bank — issued directly, which was common for Vogtland-area towns but gave these pieces no backing beyond local administrative credibility.
The embossed seal was the issuer's primary authentication device, applied individually to each note. It's the detail that separates genuine issues from contemporary counterfeits, of which Vogtland Kleingeldscheine attracted a modest but documented number.