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5 Pfennig - Burgau
| Issuer | Stadt Burgau (City of Burgau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, the municipal coat of arms of Burgau is centrally positioned, depicting a heraldic shield bearing a fortified tower flanked by two conifer trees. The shield is surmounted by a mural crown and embellished with decorative foliate scrollwork on either side. The field is otherwise unlettered, with no additional legend or inscription. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Burgau is a small Swabian town that would never have issued its own coinage under ordinary circumstances. The 1917 zinc piece exists because the German imperial government, facing acute metal shortages in the third year of the war, effectively pushed the burden of small-denomination currency down to municipalities. Hundreds of German towns responded with Notgeld of wildly varying quality; Burgau's zinc issue is among the more modest efforts — a local stopgap struck when copper and nickel had long since been redirected to the war effort.