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5 Pfennig - Bad Kissingen
| Issuer | Bad Kissingen, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal arms of Kissingen are displayed centrally within a shield, depicting a crenellated city wall with towers and a gateway, executed in a heraldic style. The city name legend STADT KISSINGEN arcs in capital letters along the upper periphery, following the inner beaded border that frames the entire design. Below the shield, a symmetrical spray of oak branches with acorns flanks the base of the arms, lending a decorative civic character to the composition. The field is plain, and the overall design reflects the utilitarian engraving style typical of German World War I Notgeld coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT KISSINGEN |
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Bad Kissingen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917, when the Imperial German war economy had stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage entirely. The Bavarian spa town — one of the most fashionable health resorts in nineteenth-century Europe, frequented by Bismarck and Emperor Franz Joseph — was reduced to issuing emergency municipal currency alongside hundreds of other German cities that year. Zinc was the material of last resort, prone to corrosion and difficult to strike cleanly, which accounts for the variable surface quality seen across surviving examples of this type.