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25 Pfennig - Isny im Allgäu
| Issuer | City of Isny im Allgäu |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts a stylized municipal eagle displayed, with wings spread and a small crown above its head, bearing an oval escutcheon on its breast. The eagle is rendered in low relief with fine feather detail. The entire central motif is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads STADT ISNY IM ALLGÄU, flanked by two star ornaments, with the date 1918 positioned at the base, all between the beaded circle and a plain outer rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD 25 PFENNIG |
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Isny im Allgäu issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1918 as the Imperial German economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions — copper and nickel had long been redirected to the military, forcing municipalities across the Reich to produce their own emergency coinage. Zinc was the compromise material: abundant enough to be practical, undesirable enough to be left alone by the procurement authorities.
Isny was a small Swabian town with a population well under five thousand at the time, which makes the administrative effort to produce a catalogued, referenced type all the more striking. The Funck reference places this among thousands of similar municipal issues, few of which circulated beyond their town of origin.