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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zeulenroda |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 52 × 39 mm |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note printed in brown on cream paper, framed by an ornate cartouche border of scrollwork and acanthus-style flourishes enclosing a central oval field. Within the oval, the issuing authority "Der Stadtgemeindevorstand" and the date "Zeulenroda, den 1. Jan. 1920" appear above a facsimile signature of the Oberbürgermeister, with the municipal coat of arms of Zeulenroda — a crenellated tower above a shield bearing a lion passant — printed in red and black below. Denomination numerals "5" occupy the left and right flanks of the oval, while the written value "Fünf Pfennig" arches along the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress note with a plain ruled outer border enclosing lateral panels of scrollwork ornament, each carrying a large denomination numeral "5". The central vignette presents a line-engraved view of the Zeulenroda town hall, a neoclassical public building with a clock tower, flanking wings, and foreground trees set against a cobblestone square. The heading "Fünf Pfennig" is set in bold Gothic script across the top, while "ZEULENRODA" appears in large block capitals within a ruled panel along the lower margin. |
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Zeulenroda was a small textile-manufacturing town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of similar municipalities in 1920, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of low-denomination coinage from circulation. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying pfennig coinage as metal costs and inflation made it economically irrational to mint them.
The DeNG suffix "b" indicates a variant, most likely a paper stock or printing color difference from the "a" type within the same municipal series. Zeulenroda issues from this period are modestly scarce but rarely command serious collector premiums unless in exceptional condition.