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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Roßbach (Municipality of Roßbach bei Braunsbedra) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided letterpress Notgeld on thin plain paper with an ornate repeating decorative border enclosing a floral guilloche underprint in yellow-toned ink. The issuer title in Gothic blackletter script occupies the upper register, beneath which the denomination '5 Pfennig' is set in large central type, with a vignette of a galloping horse over a rustic landscape positioned to the lower left. The validity line 'Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921.' is printed below, followed by the official title 'Der Ortsrichter:' and a manuscript authorisation signature. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries no independent design; being printed on thin single-sided letterpress paper, the obverse impression shows through in mirror image, rendering the ornate border, floral guilloche underprint, typeset text, and horse vignette visible in reverse. |
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Roßbach bei Braunsbedra sits in the Merseburg district of Saxony-Anhalt, a region whose economy in 1921 was dominated by lignite mining. The chronic small-change shortage that plagued Weimar Germany in the early 1920s hit industrial communities like this one particularly hard — wages needed to be paid, and there simply weren't enough low-denomination coins in circulation. Municipal Notgeld of this type was the practical answer: a local authority printing its own emergency fractional currency to keep commerce moving.
5 Pfennig pieces were among the smallest denominations produced in the Notgeld wave, and most were redeemed and destroyed within months of issue.