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5 Pfennig Verkehrs-Verein
| Issuer | Verkehrs-Verein Calbe a. M. |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 59 × 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed on pink paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative border of repeating oval and dot motifs. The issuer's name "Verkehrs-Verein Calbe a. M." appears in a cartouche at the top, with the denomination numeral "5" repeated in four corner boxes. The central text reads "Gutschein über 5 Pfennig" in bold letterpress type, with a control number ("Kontroll-Nummer") printed along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Verkehrs-Verein Calbe a. M. Gutschein über 5 Pfennig Kontroll-Nummer |
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Calbe an der Milde — a small market town in the Altmark region of Saxony-Anhalt — issued this note through its local Verkehrs-Verein, a trade and transport association, during the acute small-change shortage of 1921. The Weimar-era Kleingeldersatz system permitted civic and commercial bodies to issue low-denomination emergency paper when coin production could not meet demand, and dozens of such bodies across Germany printed their own Notgeld to keep retail trade functioning.
At 5 Pfennig, this is among the lowest denominations in the Verkehrs-Verein Notgeld category — practical scrip, not the decorative collector series that flooded the market later that same year.