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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Municipality of Weferlingen |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Small-format municipal Notgeld note of 5 Pfennig, produced in letterpress typography with the issuing authority's name — Gemeinde Weferlingen — and the denomination set in bold type within a simple ruled border. The date of issue appears in the text block, consistent with the austere, utilitarian layout standard to German municipal emergency currency of the early 1920s. The overall composition is devoid of pictorial vignettes, relying entirely on typographic arrangement. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a brief typographic text affirming the note's legal validity and the municipality's obligation to redeem it at face value, set in plain letterpress within a minimal border frame. No pictorial elements or ornamental underprint are present, reflecting the strictly functional character of this small-denomination Notgeld issue. |
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Weferlingen is a small town in the Magdeburg Börde, and its 1920 5 Pfennig note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis — the acute small-denomination coin shortage that pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own emergency paper. The Reichsbank had effectively stopped supplying low-value coinage, and local governments filled the gap themselves, often with little more than a rubber stamp and a local printer.
Notgeld of this type was declared invalid for redemption by late 1922, well before the hyperinflation peak — most municipal issuers had already pulled their paper by then.