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5 Pfennig - Forbach
| Issuer | City of Forbach (Lothringen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | The octagonal field displays the municipal coat of arms of Forbach at centre, depicting a rampant lion on a shield, surmounted by a mural crown. A continuous border of raised beads frames the periphery of the flan. The circular legend reads FORBACH i. LOTHRINGEN, arranged along the upper arc between the beaded border and the central armorial device. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Forbach, a coal-mining town in Lorraine annexed by Germany following the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, issued this zinc notgeld piece during the acute metal shortage of 1917, when imperial wartime requisitions had stripped civilian circulation of virtually all copper and nickel coinage. Municipal emergency issues of this kind were authorized locally rather than centrally, producing the catalog fragmentation reflected in its multiple reference numbers across Funck, Menzel, and Marchand.