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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Plauen i.V. (City of Plauen) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE PLAUEN I.V. GUTSCHEIN ÜBER FÜNF PFENNIG GÜLTIG NUR IM STADTBEZIRK PLAUEN U. UND NUR BIS 31. DEZ. 1919 OBERBÜRGERMEISTER Nº 163333 |
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| Signature(s) | Lehmann (Oberbürgermeister) |
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Plauen's 1919 notgeld issues came at a moment when the Reichsbank could not supply enough small coinage to keep local commerce functional — a problem affecting hundreds of German municipalities simultaneously in the immediate postwar period. The city's solution was entirely self-administered, with Oberbürgermeister Lehmann's signature lending the notes whatever municipal authority they carried.
Plauen i.V. — the "i.V." distinguishing it from other German Plauens, referencing the Vogtland region — was an industrial textile center, and the working-class population's daily transactions made the small-denomination gap acutely felt at street level. Five Pfennig was the most granular unit of practical commerce.