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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Santomischel |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on light brown cardboard, the face carries all text within a rectangular letterpress border composed of a dashed square-block frame. Above the frame, the cautionary legend 'Nicht brechen.' is set in bold type; within the frame, the issuer name 'Stadt Santomischel' appears at upper left, with the large denomination numeral '5' and abbreviation 'Pf.' at upper right. The central text reads 'Gutschein über' followed by the validity clause 'giltig bis 31. Dezember 1917' and the authorising inscription 'Der Magistrat.' at lower right. Below the frame, a further cautionary line 'Ungültig, wenn zerrissen.' is printed, the note having been cut irregularly by hand. |
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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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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.