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5 Pfennig - Lennep
| Issuer | Stadt Lennep (City of Lennep) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by the large numeral '5' at the centre, rendered in bold relief within an ornate cartouche framed by decorative scroll or chain-link flourishes at the four cardinal points. The legend NOTGELD 1920 arcs along the upper periphery, while PFENNIG is inscribed along the lower periphery, both in raised Latin lettering. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded outer border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lennep, a small textile town in the Bergisches Land east of Düsseldorf, issued this aluminium notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar years. Municipal and commercial issuers across the Rhineland flooded the market with emergency coinage in 1920, partly from genuine necessity and partly because collector demand had already turned notgeld into a cottage industry. Lennep was absorbed into the newly created city of Remscheid just two years later, in 1929, making its independent civic issues a brief window.