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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Salzwedel (Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1162.1a-1/4 |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Salzwedel Dieser Schein wird von den städtischen Kassen eingelöst. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit mit Ablauf des 31. Dez. 1921 Salzwedel, d. 20. März 1921 Der Magistrat Druck Salzwedeler Wochenblatt |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red and black on grey paper with a decorative rope-pattern border framing the entire face. Two large octagonal red panels at left and right each carry the bold black numeral '5'. The central vignette presents a detailed street scene of a historic Salzwedel alleyway known as 'Der Siel', with half-timbered buildings and a solitary female figure in the foreground. Flanking text panels carry Low German verses in Fraktur script commenting on past times and present hardship. |
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Salzwedel's municipal administration issued this note as part of Germany's vast Kleingeldersatz programme — the systematic replacement of small coinage that had been hoarded or melted as metal values exceeded face values during the inflationary spiral of the early 1920s. Thousands of German towns did the same, but what distinguishes Salzwedel's issue is the printer: the Salzwedeler Wochenblatt, the local weekly newspaper, produced these notes on its own press. The economics were brutally practical — a newspaper press could handle short-run paper work faster and cheaper than contracting a specialist.
The DeNG reference suffix variants (1a through 1/4) indicate at least four collectible subvariants within this single denomination, likely differing in serial numbering or minor typographic details.