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| Issuer | City of Marburg an der Lahn |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1919 |
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Marburg's 1919 iron Pfennig issues belong to the vast wave of German municipal Notgeld produced as the central government lost its grip on small-denomination coinage during and after the First World War. Iron was a wartime concession material — copper and nickel had been redirected to military production years earlier — and by 1919 cities were still striking in it simply because nothing better was available or sanctioned.
Marburg an der Lahn, a university town in Hesse-Nassau, issued several Notgeld denominations through this period. The Funck and Menzel references confirm this piece within a documented local series, though individual piece survival varies considerably across the denominations.