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5 Pfennig Baden, French occupation
| Issuer | Land Baden |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 5 Reichspfennig (0.05 RM) |
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| Obverse lettering | LAND BADEN 1947 5 PFENNIG Dieser Geldschein wird bis auf Widerruf bei allen Landeskassen zum Nennwert in Zahlung genommen. (Translation: This banknote will be accepted at face value at all state treasuries until revoked.) |
| Reverse description | Plain tan paper with a green guilloche border and corner numeral "5" cartouches repeated at each angle. A shield-shaped coat of arms of Baden, divided diagonally with hatching and dot motifs, is printed in green at centre, flanked on either side by the denomination "5 PFENNIG" in green and brown letterpress. A two-line legal warning clause in brown letterpress is set in the lower portion of the note. |
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Baden was one of three French occupation zones reorganized as separate "Länder" after 1945, distinct from the American-zone Württemberg-Baden to the north. This note predates the June 1948 Währungsreform, which swept out all occupation-era emergency currency virtually overnight — holders had days to exchange old Reichsmark-denominated scrip at punishing 10:1 rates, and small-denomination notes like this were often simply discarded rather than exchanged.
The French zone's currency administration ran independently of the Bizone arrangements, which is why Baden-specific issues exist at all.