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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Marienburg (West Prussia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 Fünf Pfennig 5 zahle die Stadthauptkasse zu Marienburg Wpr. gegen diese statt der Barzahlung dienende auf Sicht zahlbare Platzanweisung aus unserem Guthaben an den Überbringer. Diese Platzanweisung verliert ihre Gültigkeit, wenn sie nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung des Magistrats zur Einlösung bei der Stadthauptkasse zu Marienburg Wpr. vorgelegt wird. Marienburg Wpr., den 24. Januar 1917. Der Magistrat der Stadt Marienburg Wpr. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain white paper stock with show-through of the obverse text and serial number visible in mirror image, consistent with the thin paper used for this wartime emergency issue. |
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Marienburg's municipal government issued this Kleingeldschein during the acute small-change shortage that plagued German cities from 1916 onward — silver and copper had been pulled from circulation for war material, leaving local authorities to fill the gap with their own emergency paper. The Magistrat here was one of hundreds of German municipalities printing fractional notes, but Marienburg carried additional historical weight as the seat of the Teutonic Order's grand masters for over a century.
The "engraver" credit in the source data is simply a transliteration artifact — no external printing firm was involved; the note was produced locally by the city administration itself.