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5 Pfennig - Garmisch
| Issuer | Garmisch, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the municipal arms of Garmisch, depicting an armored knight on horseback rearing to the right, rendered within a heraldic shield. The date is split to either side of the shield, with '19' to the left and '17' to the right. A circular legend reading 'MARKTGEMEINDE' arcs across the upper periphery and 'GARMISCH' along the lower, both separated from the field by a beaded inner border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Garmisch issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as the German war economy systematically stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage — zinc being the least strategically critical metal left available to local authorities. The Bavarian resort town was an unlikely venue for emergency currency, but the disruption to central coin supply reached even tourist-economy municipalities far from any industrial front.