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5 Pfennig - Bad Bertrich
| Issuer | Bad Bertrich, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a continuous beaded border following the octagonal periphery, enclosing a circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE (small change substitute token) in raised Latin capitals arranged around the full circumference. Within this legend, a twisted rope circle encloses the large numeral 5 in the central field, indicating the denomination. Three six-pointed stars are evenly spaced in the lower segment of the field between the rope circle and the beaded rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bad Bertrich is a small spa town in the Eifel region of the Rhineland, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, it issued emergency coinage — Notgeld — as the Imperial war economy drained copper and nickel out of civilian circulation entirely. Zinc was the fallback material for the smallest denominations, abundant enough to stamp but prone to corrosion in anything but dry storage conditions. Well-preserved examples from Bad Bertrich are correspondingly scarce simply due to the metal's behavior over a century.