Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
15 Pfennig - München
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde München (City of Munich) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 15 Pfennigs (15 Pfennige) (0.15) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Pearl border encircles the entire field. A twisted rope circle frames the central denomination numeral '15' in large raised figures occupying the majority of the inner field. A small central hole pierces the coin. The circular legend 'STADTGEMEINDE' arcs across the upper periphery and 'MÜNCHEN' across the lower periphery, both between the pearl border and the rope circle. Dot separators flank the legend on either side. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE MÜNCHEN |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued in the final year of the First World War, this is Munich's contribution to the vast wave of German municipal emergency coinage — Kriegsgeld and its successor Notgeld — produced when the imperial government's requisitioning of copper and nickel for war industry stripped the country of its small-change supply. Zinc was the fallback material for dozens of cities and towns issuing their own stopgap pieces. The multiple Funck reference numbers reflect documented die varieties across the 1918 Munich issues, a detail worth cross-referencing against the specific piece in hand.