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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Kreisausschuss des Kreises Minden |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown notgeld on plain paper with a scalloped border frame. At upper centre, the title inscription 'Gutschein des Kreises Minden i. Westf.' is printed in Gothic script, while to the left a circular vignette bears the Prussian eagle and the legend 'KREISAUSSCHUSS DES KREISES MINDEN'. The large denomination numeral '5' and the abbreviation 'Pfg.' dominate the centre in bold Gothic typeface over a lace-pattern guilloche underprint. The lower portion carries a multi-line redemption text in German, with the place and date 'Minden, den 17. Juli 1917' and three handwritten signatures on behalf of the Kreisausschuss. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 |
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Minden's district committee — the Kreisausschuss — issued this note under the emergency currency provisions that proliferated across Germany from 1914 onward. By 1917, the small-denomination Kleingeld shortage had become acute enough that even district-level administrative bodies were authorizing their own Notgeld, filling the vacuum left by hoarded coins whose metal had been requisitioned for war production.
J. C. König & Ebhardt in Hannover handled an enormous volume of such commissions throughout the war years, making them one of the most prolific printers of Westphalian Notgeld. The firm's long commercial history made them a reliable choice for provincial authorities with no time for competitive tendering.