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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Mindelheim |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed on a light ochre ground with a delicate floral guilloche underprint at centre; the bold blackletter denomination numeral "5" appears at upper left and upper right, flanking a central legend in ornate Fraktur script reading "Gutschein über Fünf Pfennig." The issuing authority "Stadtmagistrat Mindelheim" is inscribed at lower centre accompanied by a manuscript signature, with the date "April 1920" and the anti-counterfeiting notice "Nachdruck Strafbar!" positioned at upper left and upper right respectively. |
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| Obverse lettering | Nachdruck Strafbar! April 1920. 5 Gutschein 5 über Fünf Pfennig Stadtmagistrat Mindelheim |
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Mindelheim is a small Swabian market town, and its Stadtmagistrat joined thousands of German municipalities issuing low-denomination Kleingeldersatz notes in 1920 as fractional coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply exhausted by wartime and postwar disruption. The 5 Pfennig was the smallest denomination most issuers bothered to print; below this, cardboard tokens or stamped pieces were more common.
Bavarian municipal notgeld of this type was typically printed locally in short runs, often on thin stock prone to rapid wear. Surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than the series' apparent abundance might suggest.