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5 Pfennig - Dillingen
| Issuer | Stadt Dillingen an der Donau |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT DILLINGEN A/D. ✶ 1917 |
| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border encircles the reverse field. The large numeral '5' dominates the centre of the field in a bold, stylised typeface, with the abbreviation 'F' (for Pfennig) positioned to the lower right. The flat, unadorned field lends a stark, utilitarian character typical of wartime Notgeld coinage. |
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Dillingen an der Donau issued this iron notgeld piece in 1917 as the wartime metal requisitions had stripped German municipal coffers of copper and nickel. The shift to iron was not a local quirk — it was the direct result of the Hindenburg Program's industrial mobilization, which redirected base metals to munitions and forced hundreds of small German municipalities to produce their own substitute coinage. Dillingen's issue is cataloged under Funck's notgeld reference, placing it firmly within the documented municipal emergency issues of Bavaria's smaller administrative centers.