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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Melle (City of Melle) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Melle Gutschein über fünf Pfennig Melle, 24. Februar 1920. Der Magistrat |
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| Reverse lettering | SIGILLUM MELLENSE 1838 Dieser Gutschein ist zum Verkehr mit der Stadtverwaltung Melle bestimmt. Die städtischen Kassen zu Melle nehmen ihn jederzeit in Zahlung. |
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Stadt Melle issued this note during the acute small-change shortage that followed Germany's post-WWI economic dislocation — copper and nickel coins had been hoarded or melted, and municipalities across the country were left to fill the gap with locally printed Kleingeldscheine. F. E. Haag was a local printer, not a specialist security press, which is exactly what you'd expect for a low-denomination emergency issue from a small Hannoverian town.
Melle's Notgeld series is modest in scope compared to the elaborate collector-targeted issues that flooded the market from 1921 onward. This 1920 piece predates that speculative wave.