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5 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Netzschkau, City of |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | German Notgeld emergency issue of five Pfennige from the city of Netzschkau, with the denomination and issuing authority stated in letterpress text. The face carries the face value in numeral and written form alongside the municipal authorization. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse typical of small-denomination Notgeld issues, carrying the legal validity clause and redemption conditions in letterpress text, with the expiry date of 31 December 1918 noted. |
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Netzschkau is a small textile town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortages of 1917–1921. These town-level emissions were technically emergency money, authorized under wartime and postwar necessity rather than any coherent monetary policy from Berlin. The 5 Pfennig denomination is among the lowest face values issued in the Notgeld series — practically worthless even then, but necessary for making change when metal coins had been hoarded or melted.