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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Elberfeld (City of Elberfeld) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also in dark blue and teal, is enclosed within a bold ornamental border incorporating stylised pilaster elements at the sides and asterisk devices at the corners. 'Stadt-Elberfeld' appears in a rectangular panel at the top, while the denomination 'Fünf Pfennig' is set in a solid dark band along the lower edge. The central field carries a four-line verse in the local Bergisch dialect, written in calligraphic Fraktur script and attributed to the signature 'Storck' beneath the text. |
| Reverse lettering | Stadt-Elberfeld Us-Elberfeld, dat-es-en-Stadt, die-bruckt-seck-nit te-schamen. Storck Fünf Pfennig |
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Elberfeld was absorbed into the newly created city of Wuppertal in 1929, which gives these municipal Notgeld issues a terminal date by default — the city that issued them ceased to exist as an administrative entity less than a decade after printing. The 1920 date places this squarely in the second wave of German small-change emergency money, when coin shortages persisted well after the armistice and municipalities across the Rhineland and Westphalia were still plugging the gap with locally printed scrip.
R. L. Friderichs & Co. was a local Elberfeld printer, and the short run distances between press and issuing authority were typical of how quickly these notes could be turned around when the need arose.