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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Wunstorf (City of Wunstorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1458.2a-1/5 |
| Obverse description | The central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Wunstorf within a circular guilloche underprint, showing a crenellated city gate surmounted by a rampant lion. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large bold type within solid black panels at left and right, each captioned 'PFENNIG'. The lower register is divided into three compartments bearing the manuscript signatures of the Magistrat and Bürgervorsteher Kollegium, flanking the validity inscription, with the printer's imprint 'DRUCK: GEBRÜDER JÄNECKE, HANNOVER.' along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN DER STADT WUNSTORF 5 PFENNIG Magistrat Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1922 Bürgervorsteher Kollegium (Translation: VOUCHER OF THE CITY OF WUNSTORF 5 PFENNIGS Magistrate Valid until December 31, 1922 Civic College) |
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Wunstorf's 1921 Kleingeldersatz issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency money that flooded German commerce as postwar coin shortages made small-denomination transactions increasingly unworkable. Gebrüder Jänecke in Hannover was a legitimate commercial printer — not a security press — yet the firm incorporated a watermark, an unusual touch for Notgeld at this fractional level where most municipalities dispensed with any such precaution entirely.
The reference suffix "1/5" indicates this is one of five notes in the Wunstorf series, all issued simultaneously under a single municipal authorization.