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5 Pfennig - Cöln-Bayenthal Franz Herrmann Maschinenfabrik
| Issuer | Franz Herrmann Maschinenfabrik, Cöln-Bayenthal |
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| Weight | 1.7 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 5 ★ ★ ★ |
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Franz Herrmann's machine works in Cologne-Bayenthal issued zinc notgeld tokens like this one during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when municipal and private issuers flooded circulation with substitute coinage because the Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with inflationary demand. Factory-issued pieces are among the more perishable survivors of the notgeld era — zinc corrodes aggressively, and most examples spent time in workers' pockets before the tokens were eventually demonetized.