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5 Pfennig Württemberg-Hohenzollern, French occupation
| Issuer | Land Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Finanzministerium |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 5 Reichspfennig (0.05 RM) |
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| Obverse lettering | Behelfsgeld des Landes Württemberg-Hohenzollern franz. Besatzungsgebiet Dieser Schein wird bis zum Aufruf durch das Finanzministerium bei allen Kassen des Landes Württemberg-Hohenzollern zum Nennwert in Zahlung genommen Tübingen, Oktober 1947 Land Württemberg-Hohenzollern Finanzministerium Pfennig (Translation: Substitute money of the state of Württemberg-Hohenzollern French Occupation area This note is valid until cancelled by the Ministry of Finance and will be taken in payment at all cash registers in the country Württemberg-Hohenzollern at face value Tübingen, October 1947 State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern Ministry of Finance) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress reverse in brown ink, with four corner vignette panels each bearing the denomination '5 Pfennig' in Gothic script, enclosing a central line-engraved vignette of Castle Lichtenstein perched on a rocky outcrop against a mountainous landscape. An anti-counterfeiting warning inscription runs along the lower edge of the central vignette, with the printer's imprint below. |
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Württemberg-Hohenzollern was an artificial administrative unit — a French occupation zone construct that never existed as a political entity before 1945 and ceased to exist when Baden-Württemberg was formed in 1952. This note was issued by its Finance Ministry because the postwar currency chaos made small-denomination paper necessary at the regional level, well below what occupation authorities were managing centrally.
Knapp & Cie. KG in Reutlingen was a printing house with a long background in commercial and administrative work — a practical local choice rather than a specialist banknote printer.