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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Santomischel |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise plain cardboard, bearing a single circular official hand-stamp applied in violet ink at centre. The stamp shows 'MAGISTRAT' along the upper arc and 'SANTOMISCHEL' along the lower arc, with a municipal coat of arms or eagle device in the interior field, serving as the sole authentication of this Notgeld voucher. |
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| Protection type | Official hand-stamp |
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Santomischel — known today as Szamotuły, in what is now west-central Poland — was a small Prussian market town that issued this cardboard Notgeld during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward. Municipal authorities across the Reich were issuing emergency small-denomination pieces by the hundreds, but the cardboard format rather than printed paper places this squarely in the practical, low-budget end of that wave. The hand-stamp was the only authentication mechanism the issuing magistrate could reliably apply in-house.
The DeNG reference suffix "a" typically denotes a color or text variant within the type — worth checking against the "b" listing if one surfaces.