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2 Pfennig - Marburg an der Lahn
| Issuer | City of Marburg an der Lahn |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.2 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a mounted knight in armour facing left in a dynamic trotting pose, bearing a shield decorated with a lion passant, referencing the heraldic arms of Marburg. The legend KLEINGELDERSATZ arcs across the upper portion of the field in raised Latin capitals, interposed between the outer pearl border and the equestrian figure. The date 1917 is inscribed in the lower exergue, with a small star ornament to the right. The overall composition is enclosed within a continuous outer pearl border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Marburg's 1917 iron notgeld emerged from the same municipal scramble that hit German cities across the board that year — the Imperial government had effectively stripped small-denomination coinage from circulation through wartime metal requisitioning, leaving local authorities to improvise. Iron was the fallback precisely because it held no strategic value to the war effort, which is why so many of these city-issued pieces survive in better condition than their pre-war zinc or copper counterparts: nobody hoarded iron.
The Funck 317.2 designation places this among multiple die variants documented for Marburg's issue.