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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Zörbig (City of Zörbig) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 30 September 1921 |
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| Obverse description | Typographically-driven Notgeld note printed by letterpress in black on white paper, centred on a large oval vignette enclosing an oversized numeral '5' against a dark hatched field with foliate scroll underprint. The curved inscription 'NOTGELD DER' spans the upper register above the vignette, while 'STADT-ZÖRBIG' arches in large display lettering below it; vertical border text along the left and right margins carries auxiliary legends, and the lower margin bears the authority line 'DER MAGISTRAT:' accompanied by a manuscript Bürgermeister signature, all contained within a plain ruled rectangular frame. The overall layout is characteristic of small-denomination Weimar-era municipal emergency currency produced by simple typographic means. |
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| Obverse lettering | FEHLT ÜBERALL - SO HELFEN WIR NOTGELD DER PFENNIG PFENNIG EINLÖSB. STADTSPARKASSE KASSE ZÖRBIG BIS 30. 1921 STADT-ZÖRBIG I. GELD AUS METALL UNS MIT PAPIER !! DER MAGISTRAT: BÜRGERMEISTER |
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Zörbig is a small market town in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, it issued emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the vacuum left by hoarded metal coins during the postwar economic disruption. The 5 Pfennig denomination sits at the very bottom of the Notgeld hierarchy, where the gap between face value and production cost was almost negligible, making these notes essentially disposable from the outset.
Survival rates for low-denomination municipal Kleingeldscheine are deceptively poor despite large original print runs — most were redeemed quickly and pulped.