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5 Pfennig - Geiselhöring
| Issuer | Geiselhöring, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | MARKTGEMEINDE ★ GEISELHÖRING ★ |
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Geiselhöring is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and its 1918 emergency coinage belongs to the vast Kriegsgeld and early Notgeld wave that swept German municipal issuers as the imperial government drained copper and nickel for war material. By mid-1918 the Reichsbank's coin shortages had become acute enough that even minor Bavarian towns were authorized — or simply compelled by practicality — to strike their own small-denomination pieces in zinc. Funck 153.1C distinguishes this from at least one variant, suggesting the town ran more than a single die pairing during the issue.