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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf, Municipality of |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue notgeld coupon printed in dark blue ink, with a perforated right edge in stamp format. The large numeral '5' is centered in the upper portion, flanked by two geometric rosette vignettes in a lattice-diamond pattern. Below, the denominating legend and issuer name are set in three lines within a simple rectangular border composed of stylized bamboo-like rules. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein 5 Pfennig Neumühlen-Dietrichsdorf |
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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.