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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Benneckenstein |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#0073.1-1/5 |
| Obverse description | A woodcut-style vignette in olive-green and black occupies the upper portion of the note, showing an elderly woman carrying a large wicker basket on her back as she traverses a dense forest — a scene that alludes directly to the verse printed on the reverse. At lower left, the denomination numeral '5' appears within a solid black rectangular panel above the word 'Pfennig'; to the right, the issuing authority text is set in Gothic blackletter script with a facsimile signature of the Magistrat below. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wenige Hütten erst standen im Tal, viel riesige Fichten im Walde. Da ging, schwere Last auf dem Rücken, nach den Hütten einst eine Alte. [einmal Mit Eiern, Käse und Butter bepackt, Der Erwerb einer sauren Woche, hatt' sie den Weg durch den Wald gewagt. Doch sie seufzt' ob ihrem Joche. Der Gutschein verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach der vom Magistrat erlassenen Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgelegt wird. |
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Benneckenstein is a small town in the Harz, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities in 1921, its local Magistrat issued low-denomination Notgeld to plug the chronic small-change shortage that plagued everyday commerce during the inflationary spiral following World War I. The Reichsbank simply could not mint coin fast enough as the mark's purchasing power collapsed.
Municipal 5 Pfennig pieces at this level were often printed in very short runs by local or regional printers on whatever stock was available, which makes individual issues within a series harder to attribute and easier to confuse. The DeNG reference distinguishes at least five variants within this denomination alone.