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5 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Netzschkau |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned notgeld on paper with a denticulated border running the full perimeter. At centre, a heraldic shield vignette encloses a standing figure beneath a tree, surrounded by a ribbon scroll bearing the motto text; the numeral '5' appears in large ornate type at upper left and upper right, flanked by foliate corner ornaments. The issuer inscription 'Stadtgemeinde Netzschkau' is set at lower left, with the facsimile signature of the Bürgermeister 'Hienemann' at lower right, above the denomination legend 'Pfennig' on both sides. |
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| Reverse description | Pink-toned reverse with a denticulated border matching the obverse. The header 'Stadtgemeinde Netzschkau.' is printed in bold letterpress across the top. A large ornamental numeral '5' with the abbreviation 'Pf.' occupies the centre field, set against a guilloche-style floral underprint with vertical foliate column ornaments at each side. A serial number panel in a lighter tint runs along the lower portion, with 'No.' and a partially obscured handstamped number visible. |
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Netzschkau is a small textile town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, and like hundreds of similarly sized German municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper money — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from roughly 1916 onward. The Stadtgemeinde series was a purely local stopgap, redeemable only within the issuing community and typically printed in small runs by regional printers with whatever materials were available.
The single signatory, Hienemann, almost certainly served as Bürgermeister or a designated municipal treasurer. No major catalog assigns this piece a prominent rarity rating, but Netzschkau Notgeld in any denomination sees thin trading volume — small-town Vogtland issues were never systematically collected the way the decorative 1921 inflation Notgeld was.