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1 Pfennig - Aalen
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Aalen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised inner circle, a spread eagle bearing the municipal coat of arms of Aalen on its breast occupies the central field. The date 1918 is divided by the eagle's talons at the lower left and right. A circular legend surrounds the design, reading STADTGEMEINDE at the top and AALEN at the base, with small star stops flanking the city name. The whole is struck on a square flan with generously rounded corners, giving the piece its characteristic notgeld format. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE 19 18 AALEN |
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Aalen's 1918 iron Pfennig belongs to the vast ecosystem of German municipal notgeld produced as the Imperial economy buckled under wartime metal requisitioning. By mid-1917, the Imperial government had effectively stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage, forcing hundreds of smaller municipalities to issue their own iron or zinc substitutes under emergency authorization. Aalen, a modest Württemberg industrial town, was among them.
The Funck and Menzel references place this among a numbered series of Aalen issues — the .7 suffix indicating this is not the only variety from this issuer in this period.