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5 Pfennig - Geiselhöring
| Issuer | Geiselhöring, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays a large numeral 5 in bold relief, denoting the face value. Surrounding the numeral, the circular legend reads KRIEGSMÜNZE at the top and PFENNIG at the bottom, each segment separated by star stops, identifying this piece as a wartime emergency coin. The entire design is enclosed within a continuous beaded border. A small circular hole is punched in the lower portion of the field, consistent with the obverse. |
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Geiselhöring is a small market town in Lower Bavaria, and its 1918 notgeld issues belong to the vast emergency coinage wave that swept German municipalities as wartime metal shortages stripped circulation of nearly all official small change. The Imperial government had been pulling nickel and copper from coins since 1915, leaving local authorities to plug the gap themselves. Nickel-plated zinc was a characteristic compromise of the period — base enough to be available, plated enough to pass.
The Funck reference places this squarely among the more obscure municipal issuers, where surviving populations tend to be small simply because original production runs were modest and tied to purely local need.