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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinden Triebes, Hohenleuben und Langenwetzendorf (Municipalities of Triebes, Hohenleuben, and Langenwetzendorf) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green and brown Notgeld with a large numeral '5' vignette at left on a decorative guilloche ground, flanked by three circular municipal seals of Triebes, Hohenleuben, and Langenwetzendorf. The right panel carries the denomination 'Fünf Pfennig' in bold letterpress within a decorative frame, above the issue date 'Triebes, den 7. März 1921' and three manuscript signatures of the respective municipal authorities. |
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| Obverse lettering | Pflege Reichenfels Gutschein der Gemeinden Triebes, Hohenleuben, Langenwetzendorf Fünf Pfennig Triebes, den 7. März 1921 Der Stadtgemeindevorstand Hohenleuben. Langenwetzendorf. Der Gemeindevorstand. Der Gemeindevorstand. |
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This note is a product of the Kleingeldschein wave that swept Thuringia and much of central Germany in 1921, when chronic small-coin shortages forced municipalities — sometimes clusters of neighboring villages — to issue their own fractional paper. The joint issuance by three small Vogtland communities is unusual enough to flag: Triebes, Hohenleuben, and Langenwetzendorf pooled authority rather than each printing independently, a practical arrangement that kept costs down with Otto Henning A.G. in nearby Greiz handling the press run.
Notgeld at this denomination was rarely saved at the time — five pfennig pieces were spent, not collected — which makes surviving examples more interesting than the face value suggests.