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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Soest |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue and pale note with large numerals '5' in each corner against a fine guilloche background. A central oval vignette presents a panoramic engraved view of the city of Soest with its characteristic skyline of medieval church towers and town walls. Above the vignette within the oval border reads 'SVSATUM.' alongside the Soest civic arms and the cursive inscription 'Soest'. A two-part verse quotation from the poet Freiligrath encircles the oval border. |
| Reverse lettering | 5 DA LIEGT SIE FINSTER MIT TÜRMEN UND WALL, DIE MICH LEHREN SOLL DEN ERWERB. (FREILIGRATH) SVSATUM. Soest EDLER & KRISCHE, HANNOVER. |
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Soest's municipal authority issued this note as part of the Kleingeldersatz wave that swept German towns in 1920, when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply worn out of existence by wartime disruption and postwar shortages. The Magistrat was one of hundreds of local bodies legally empowered to fill that gap with emergency paper.
Edler & Krische in Hannover handled a large volume of this municipal notgeld work, and the firm's output varied considerably in print quality across clients. The S81.1c designation within the DeNG catalogue indicates a variant within the Soest 5 Pfennig series — collectors should check serial numbering and any typographic differences against the other listed variants before cataloguing.