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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Freyburg (Unstrut), Magistrat |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Otto Henning A.G., Greiz, Germany |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Gutschein der Stadt Freyburg (Unstrut) 5 Fünf Pfennig Freyburg (Unstrut), den 15. Mai 1920. Der Magistrat. |
| Reverse description | Printed in black and ochre-orange on cream paper, the upper portion carries a fine linear vignette of the Freyburg church (Kirche), rendered in detailed architectural style with twin towers and surrounding townscape against a hillside background, captioned 'Kirche' at upper left. The lower register, set on a dark ground, displays the denomination numeral '5' in ochre at each side, with a central circular official town seal of Stadt Freyburg (Unstrut) flanked by stylised floral and foliage ornaments. The whole is enclosed within an ornamental ochre border with foliate cornerpieces. |
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Freyburg an der Unstrut is a small Saale-Unstrut wine town in Saxony-Anhalt, and its municipal administration issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that paralyzed German retail commerce in 1920. The Reichsbank's inability to keep low-denomination coin in circulation — partly a consequence of wartime metal requisitioning and partly postwar hoarding — forced hundreds of German municipalities to print their own emergency Kleingeldersatz. Otto Henning A.G. in Greiz handled a substantial volume of this Notgeld printing work for Thuringian and Saxon municipalities throughout the period.