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5 Pfennig - Deggendorf
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Deggendorf |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE DEGGENDORF 1917 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Deggendorf's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first major wave of German municipal emergency coinage, driven by the wartime hoarding of copper and nickel that had effectively stripped small denominations from everyday commerce. The Imperial government had authorized municipalities to fill the gap, and hundreds of towns did exactly that — Deggendorf among them. Zinc was the compromise material: abundant enough, despised enough that nobody would hoard it.
Funck #90.1 indicates this is the primary catalogued variety for this issuer, suggesting limited die variation in the Deggendorf series.