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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Weida (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 Pfennig Pulverturm 1920 niedergelegt Was braucht die Stadt ein Pulverturm, / Wenn Pulver sie nicht hat. Notgeld der Stadt Weida (Translation: 5 Pfennig Powder Tower laid down 1920 What does the city need a powder tower, / If it has no powder. Notgeld of the City of Weida) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Weida is a small town in the Greiz district of Thuringia, and this note is a product of the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1921, when coin metal shortages and postwar economic dislocation pushed hundreds of German municipalities into printing their own fractional emergency currency. The Johannes Arndt Druckerei in Jena supplied a number of these small-town Notgeld issues across Thuringia, working to tight cost constraints — which makes the presence of a watermark here worth noting. Most municipal issues at this denomination dispensed with security features entirely.