Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf, Municipality of |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Light blue coupon reverse printed in dark blue ink, with a perforated left edge. The central vignette presents a detailed woodcut-style toad in profile, surrounded by an ornamental border of alternating foliate and heart-shaped motifs. Beneath the toad, the Low German dialectal inscription 'POGGENDÖRP' (meaning 'Frog Village', a playful nickname for Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf) is lettered in bold capitals. |
| Reverse lettering | POGGENDÖRP |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf was a small industrial municipality on the western shore of Kiel Fjord, later absorbed into Kiel in 1924. This note belongs to the vast wave of German Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitute currency — that flooded circulation after coin hoarding stripped pfennig denominations from everyday transactions during and after the First World War. Municipal authorities across Germany issued their own notgeld precisely because the central government could not or would not supply adequate small change in time.
At 50 × 42 mm, this is among the smallest notgeld formats produced, driven purely by paper economy rather than any design consideration.