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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Glogau (City of Glogau) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is divided into three vertical panels within a decorative border of interlocking scroll ornaments. The left vignette shows a figure laboring in a rural landscape, while the right vignette shows a craftsman at work in an industrial interior. The central panel carries the denomination numeral '5' and the legend 'Pfennige' in Gothic blackletter script within an octagonal frame on a yellow-green underprint, with the issuing authority 'Der Magistrat' and two facsimile signatures below. The lower margin bears the series designation 'Reihe V' and the validity date 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1920' in a central cartouche, flanked by the serial number in red. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Schreiber and Tasch |
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Glogau's 1920 Kleingeldersatz notes — emergency small-change substitutes — were a direct response to the chronic coin shortage that plagued Germany throughout the early Weimar period. Metal had been hoarded, melted, or simply not struck in sufficient quantities to meet everyday retail demand, and hundreds of German municipalities issued their own fractional paper to fill the gap. Carl Flemming AG, based in Glogau itself, was one of the smaller regional printers drawn into this work almost by geographic convenience.
The dual imprint "Glogau und Berlin" reflects Flemming's two-city operation during its expansion years.