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5 Pfennig - Dieburg
| Issuer | Dieburg, District of |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border, the denomination numeral '5' is prominently centered in the field, enclosed by a wreath of ivy leaves. The circular legend 'KRIEGSGELD' at the top and 'KREIS DIEBURG' at the bottom runs along the periphery, separated by two small bullet stops, referencing the issuing district authority. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Dieburg's 1920 emergency coinage belongs to the vast wave of German Notgeld issued by municipalities scrambling to fill a coin vacuum caused by wartime metal hoarding and postwar monetary chaos. Iron was the practical choice for minor denominations by this point — copper and nickel had been absorbed into the war economy years earlier and hadn't returned to circulation in meaningful quantities.
The district of Dieburg, in Hesse, was one of hundreds of small administrative bodies that effectively took monetary matters into their own hands during this period, with no central coordination governing design, size, or production quality.