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5 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Emmendingen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Die Stadtkasse Emmendingen zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein Fünf Pfennig EMMENDINGEN, den 1. August 1917. Der Gemeinderat: Bürgermeister Ratschreiber |
| Reverse description | Pale yellow reverse printed with a large central vignette of the Stadtgemeinde Emmendingen municipal seal, showing a heraldic shield surmounted by a crown and surrounded by the circular legend 'STADTGEMEINDE EMMENDINGEN'. The numeral '5' appears in ornamental cartouches at each of the four corners, all rendered in a light yellow tonal print against the plain ground. |
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Emmendingen's Stadtkasse entered the emergency money market in 1917, the same year Germany's small-change shortage reached its worst point — silver and copper had long since disappeared into military procurement, and the Reichsbank couldn't print fractional notes fast enough to cover the gap. Thousands of German municipalities issued their own Notgeld to fill the void, and Emmendingen's 5 Pfennig issue is among the more minor provincial examples, produced with minimal pretension and almost certainly printed locally.
These small-denomination municipal notes rarely survived daily handling intact. The paper was thin and the notes changed hands constantly in market transactions.