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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Artern (City of Artern) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a landscape vignette of the saline spring (Solquell) in the Salztal valley, rendered in a woodcut-style illustration with trees and a rural path occupying the central frame. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large Gothic script at the upper left, flanked by hatched guilloche borders on both sides, with a decorative device at the upper right. Below the vignette, a three-line text in Gothic blackletter script states the guarantee of the Stadtgemeinde Artern dated 1 January 1921, signed by the Magistrat Külbstein, with a redemption notice specifying invalidation if not redeemed within one month of announcement at the Stadtkasse Artern. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 Pfg DER KUNSTTURM · ERBAUT 1728 · NIEDERGERISSEN 1897 |
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Artern is a small salt-mining town in Thuringia, and like hundreds of other German municipalities in 1921, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Kleingeldscheine — to fill the gap left by a chronic shortage of low-denomination coinage. The post-war inflation had made hoarding of metal currency widespread long before the hyperinflationary collapse of 1923 arrived.
The DeNG reference places this within a well-documented local series, and the decimal suffix (.3a) suggests multiple text or color variants were issued within the same face value run — not unusual for municipal Notgeld of this period, where print runs were small and local printers sometimes made mid-run adjustments.