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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Mylau, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a cartographic view of the city of Mylau, flanked on either side by smaller panels containing industrial vignettes. The denomination '5 Pf.' appears in conjunction with the municipal inscription 'MYLAU DER STADTRAT', asserting the civic authority of issue. The overall layout follows the multi-panel Notgeld format typical of early 1920s German municipal emergency currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 pf. MYLAU DER STADTRAT |
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Mylau is a small textile town in the Vogtland district of Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the inflationary chaos of the early 1920s. The Carl Werner printing house in nearby Reichenbach was a regional workhorse for these small-denomination issues, supplying Notgeld to numerous Vogtland communities in short runs that were never intended to outlast the crisis.
The 5 Pfennig denomination is among the lowest issued in any Notgeld series, reflecting acute small-coin shortages that made even fractional paper notes a practical necessity.