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5 Pfennig Federal Treasury Note
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 1967 |
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| Printer | Bundesdruckerei |
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| Obverse lettering | BUNDESKASSENSCHEIN FÜNF PFENNIG BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND (Translation: Federal Treasury Note Five Pfennig Federal Republic of Germany.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a large bold numeral '5' at centre, set against a fine guilloche underprint, with the abbreviation 'PF' (Pfennig) printed in oval cartouches to the left and right of the numeral. The anti-counterfeiting warning inscription is arranged along the lower portion of the note. |
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West Germany's small-denomination treasury notes — the 5 and 10 Pfennig pieces — are a genuine oddity in postwar European currency. By 1967 most industrialized nations had long abandoned paper for coins at this value level, but chronic shortages of small coinage in the Federal Republic kept these fractional notes in active use well into the late 1960s. The Bundesdruckerei produced them under strict federal contract, the same facility handling the full Deutsche Mark banknote series simultaneously.
Withdrawn and demonetized in 1975, surviving uncirculated examples are harder to find than the low face value implies — most were simply spent, lost, or discarded.