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5 Pfennig - Cosel Feldmühle
| Issuer | Feldmühle, Cosel (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The heavily corroded reverse of this octagonal iron emergency token bears a circular legend reading 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' around the upper periphery. The numeral '5' appears in the central field, flanked by three five-pointed star ornaments arranged horizontally. A beaded inner border separates the central device from the surrounding legend. Extensive iron oxidation and surface corrosion are evident across the entire reverse field, consistent with the ferrous composition typical of World War I-era German notgeld issues. |
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Cosel's Feldmühle paper mill issued this iron notgeld piece in 1917 as Germany's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation entirely. Industrial facilities across Silesia were among the first to produce their own emergency coinage, partly because their on-site workforces made informal currency systems practical to enforce. Iron was the default material not by preference but by elimination — most usable alloys were already committed to shell casings.