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5 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Der Magistrat der Stadt Eisleben |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on cream paper, with four ornate guilloche corner vignettes each bearing the numeral '5' in bold. The upper central area carries the municipal coat of arms of Eisleben beneath the legend 'Gutschein der Stadt Eisleben', with 'Fünf Pfennig' rendered in decorative Gothic script across a central banner. Below, a two-paragraph text block states the redemption conditions, dated 'Eisleben, den 1. Juni 1917', and bears the facsimile signature of Der Magistrat, with the printer's imprint 'Adolf Forker, Leipzig' at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Stadt Eisleben Fünf Pfennig Dieser Gutschein wird bis zum Ablaufe der Gültigkeit von allen städtischen Kassen und Banken in Eisleben eingelöst. Eisleben, den 1. Juni 1917 Der Magistrat Dieser Gutschein wird ungültig, wenn er nicht innerhalb eines Monats nach erfolgter Bekanntmachung des Magistrats bei der Kämmereikasse Eisleben eingelöst wird Adolf Forker, Leipzig |
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Eisleben's city magistrate issued this note in 1917 as part of the broader Notgeld wave that swept German municipalities when small-denomination coinage — hoarded or melted — effectively vanished from circulation. Adolf Forker was a Leipzig commercial printer with no particular specialization in security printing, which is typical of the lower-value Notgeld issues where anti-counterfeiting sophistication was considered unnecessary for notes worth fractions of a Pfennig in real purchasing terms.
Eisleben, as the birthplace of Martin Luther, occasionally leveraged that association in its civic imagery — though whether this specific 1917 issue did so is a matter for the obverse description.