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5 Pfennig - Alfeld C. Behrens
| Issuer | C. Behrens, Alfeld |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | C. BEHRENS 5 ★ ALFELD ★ |
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C. Behrens was a commercial firm in Alfeld an der Leine, Lower Saxony, that issued this zinc notgeld token during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Municipal and private issuers alike filled the gap when the Reichsbank could not keep low-denomination coinage in circulation — zinc was the practical choice, cheap and available when copper and nickel were not.