5 Pfennig

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.