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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat Ballenstedt |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 5 Pfg. Die Gültigkeit erlischt 3 Monate nach öffentlicher Bekanntmachung. Ballenstedt V/H. den 28. Sept. 1920 Magistrat Ballenstedt im Ost- harz |
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| Reverse lettering | Selketal 5 5 5 5 |
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Ballenstedt is a small town in the Harz region of Saxony-Anhalt, and this 5 Pfennig note belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldscheine — small-denomination emergency paper — that flooded Germany in 1920 as coin metal remained scarce and hoarded in the aftermath of the First World War. Municipalities of even modest size were authorized to issue their own fractional notes to keep local commerce moving, which is why thousands of distinct issuing authorities appear across this period.
The Magistrat series from Ballenstedt is not among the better-documented Notgeld issues, and surviving examples are common enough to suggest they circulated freely rather than being collected as novelties — a fate that befell many of the more ornate regional issues almost immediately upon release.