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5 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Gronau in Hannover |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green letterpress note with a decorative guilloche border enclosing a central coat of arms vignette surmounted by a crown. The denomination numeral '5' and the word 'Pfennig' are overprinted in dark blue at centre, with 'Notgeld' in bold letterpress below. The date '1917' appears along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain buff-coloured paper surface with no design, text, or security elements. |
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Gronau an der Leine — not to be confused with the larger Gronau in Westphalia — issued this note under the Magistrat's authority during the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities from 1916 onward. Kleingeldscheine of this type were a purely local stopgap, valid only within the issuing commune and legally dubious under Reich monetary law, yet tolerated by Berlin as long as the denominations stayed low.
Local printing in Gronau kept costs down but quality variable. Paper supply itself was constrained by wartime rationing, and the stock used across this series is notoriously thin and prone to splitting along fold lines.