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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Eschwege (City of Eschwege) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Eschwege Fünf Pfennig 1920 Dieser Geldschein wird von allen städtischen Kassen eingelöst. Der Magistrat: |
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| Reverse lettering | Könnt'st du wie in alten Tagen unsrer Stadt die Stunden sagen, aber lauter gute blasen und die bösen draußen lassen! 5 Pf. |
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Eschwege lies in the Werra valley of Hesse, and like hundreds of small German municipalities in 1920, it was forced into printing its own small-denomination scrip simply because the Reichsbank could not produce enough low-value coinage to keep local trade moving. The post-war metal shortage made even 5-Pfennig pieces impossible to circulate in adequate quantities.
P. Israel of Wanfried — a small town barely fifteen kilometers up the Werra from Eschwege — was a regional printer with no particular specialization in security printing, which is exactly the point: these Kleingeldscheine were utility objects, produced quickly and locally, not engineered against forgery.