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5 Pfennig - Aschaffenburg
| Issuer | Stadt Aschaffenburg (City of Aschaffenburg) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting the medieval city seal of Aschaffenburg: a robed episcopal figure (bishop) standing frontally beneath a pointed Gothic arch, holding a crozier in the left hand and raising the right hand in blessing, flanked on each side by a crenellated tower. The composition closely reproduces the historic city seal matrix. The circular Latin legend 'IN ASCAFFINBVRG SIGILLVM CIVIVM' ('Seal of the Citizens of Aschaffenburg') surrounds the device, separated from it by a dotted inner border. |
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| Edge | Smooth or Reeded |
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Aschaffenburg issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917, when the Imperial German wartime metal requisition program had stripped municipal coffers and commercial channels alike of copper and nickel. Zinc was allocated to municipalities as a second-rate substitute, and local administrations were left to organize their own small-change production — a logistical absurdity that generated hundreds of distinct local issues across Germany in 1916 and 1917 alone.
The Funck reference places this among the earliest catalogued Aschaffenburg municipal issues of the war period.