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5 Pfennig Gold
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Guben |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs Gold |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and pale blue on cream paper. A dense guilloche underprint of repeated numeral "5" and foliate rosette patterns fills the entire field, framed by a decorative border of interlocking ornamental units. The denomination "5" appears in a central circular guilloche vignette, flanked by the letterpress legends "Notgeldschein" and "Pfennig Gold" in large bold type, with the preposition "über" above; below, a block of redemption text in German is followed by the date "Guben, den 27. Oktober 1923", the issuing authority "Magistrat der Stadt Guben" in large display type, and two manuscript facsimile signatures. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream paper surface with no design, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the utilitarian production standards typical of German Notgeld issues of the hyperinflation period. |
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Guben sits on the Neisse River, and in 1923 the town's magistrate was doing what hundreds of German municipalities were doing: printing its own emergency money because the Reichsbank's hyperinflationary output had become functionally useless. The "Gold" denomination is the telling detail — by mid-1923, issuers had largely abandoned mark-denominated notgeld in favor of gold-backed or gold-equivalent values, since any figure in paper marks was obsolete before the ink dried.
Flemming & Wiskott were prolific notgeld printers, handling municipal commissions across Silesia and Brandenburg simultaneously. Their multi-city operation — Glogau, Berlin, Breslau — reflects the sheer production volume the inflation period demanded.