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5 Pfennig Latvia, Mitau, Jelgava
| Issuer | Jelgava (Mitau), City Administration |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | German-language text on a matching floral guilloche underprint, with issuer title 'Die Mitausche Stadtverwaltung' at top. Denomination '5 fünf Pfennig 5' at centre, serial number at lower left, and facsimile signatures at lower right. |
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Mitau — now Jelgava — fell under German military occupation in late 1915, and emergency municipal notes like this one were issued to address the immediate collapse of small-denomination coin circulation. The occupying administration retained local civic structures in name, which is why the issuer appears as the City Administration rather than a German military authority.
The Pfennig denomination itself signals the transition: Russian kopeks had effectively vanished from hand-to-hand commerce, and these notes bridged the gap before the German military currency system took hold across the Ober Ost territories.