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25 Pfennig - Abbach Portlandzementwerke
| Issuer | Portlandzementwerke Abbach |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | A beaded border encircles the entire design. The large numeral '25' dominates the central field, rendered in bold relief against a horizontally lined background. The legend 'KRIEGSMÜNZE' arcs across the upper periphery and 'PFENNIG' along the lower, each separated from the numeral by a five-pointed star at either side. |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSMÜNZE 25 ★ PFENNIG ★ |
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A piece of German notgeld issued by the Portland cement works at Bad Abbach in Bavaria, almost certainly during the zinc-shortage years of World War I, when municipal and industrial issuers across Germany filled the gap left by disappearing small coinage. Cement factories were critical war-industry sites, and their workers needed to be paid in something usable locally. The irony of a zinc coin issued precisely when zinc was a strategic material is not lost on students of the period.