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25 Pfennig - Buer in Westfalen
| Issuer | Stadt Buer in Westfalen |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of the city of Buer occupies the central field, depicting a quartered heraldic shield surmounted by a mural crown with three towers. The upper quarters display horizontal lines and a decorative foliate motif, while the lower quarters feature a smaller inescutcheon and hatched lines. A circular Latin legend frames the design along the periphery of the octagonal flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT BUER i. W. 25 PFENNIG |
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Buer was an independent industrial city in the Westphalian coalfield — it wouldn't be absorbed into Gelsenkirchen until 1928. This zinc notgeld piece dates from the inflationary emergency coinage period following World War I, when municipal authorities across Germany were forced to produce their own small-denomination tokens to fill a vacuum left by hoarded or absent Reichscoinage. Zinc was the material of necessity, not choice; copper and nickel had been stripped from civilian production years earlier by wartime requisition.