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5 Pfennig - Grossauheim Fahrzeugfabrik
| Issuer | Fahrzeugfabrik GmbH Großauheim |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Octagonal (8-sided) |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain dotted border running along all eight sides. Within the border, a circular legend reads FAHRZEUGFABRIK G.M.B.H. across the upper arc and GROSSAUHEIM across the lower arc, separated by a six-pointed star at each terminus. An inner ring of raised dots frames the central field, which bears the large numeral '5' denoting the face value of five Pfennig. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE ★ ★ ★ |
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Großauheim's Fahrzeugfabrik — a vehicle manufacturing plant on the Main River east of Hanau — issued emergency coinage in 1918 as the German imperial economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions. Zinc was the default material for notgeld issuers by that point; copper and nickel had long been redirected to the war effort, leaving municipalities and private firms alike to mint whatever the Reichsbank would tolerate. Factory-issued pieces like this one circulated among workers as wage tokens when small-denomination coinage simply ceased to reach the shop floor.