5 Pfennig

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.