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25 Pfennig - Peine
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Peine |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border frames the outer edge of the reverse, within which the circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE is arranged around the upper and lower periphery, punctuated by three five-pointed stars at the base. An inner rope or cord circle encloses the large numeral '25' in the central field, indicating the denomination in Pfennig. The overall design is austere and functional, characteristic of German municipal notgeld emergency coinage of the First World War period. |
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Peine's 1918 iron notgeld issue was a direct consequence of wartime metal requisitioning that had stripped German municipalities of copper and nickel reserves. By mid-1918, the imperial government had been pulling subsidiary coinage metals for munitions production for years, leaving local administrations to improvise with whatever the war economy hadn't yet claimed. Iron was the answer for dozens of small cities — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public who found it heavy, prone to rust, and visually bleak against the brass and nickel pieces it replaced.