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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Seidenberg (Lower Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 5 Pfennig Gültig vom 1. Oktober bis 31. Dezember 1920 Seidenberg Otto Müller |
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| Signature(s) | Otto Müller |
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Seidenberg — today the Polish-German border town of Zawidów/Seidenberg — issued this note as part of the vast wave of municipal Notgeld that flooded German commerce between 1919 and 1921. The collapse of small-denomination coinage after the war forced thousands of German and Austrian towns to print their own emergency pfennig notes, and Seidenberg was no exception. Otto Müller's signature identifies a local official rather than a banking authority — this was a municipal administrative act, not a central banking one.
Lower Silesian Notgeld of this period was frequently printed in small runs and redeemed quickly, making surviving examples harder to find than their humble face value suggests.