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5 Pfennig - Hilpoltstein Buchdruckerei C. Haas
| Issuer | Buchdruckerei C. Haas, Hilpoltstein |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan, enclosing a circular pearl ring within which the issuer's legend reads around the full circumference. A single five-pointed star appears at the base of the legend. Within the inner pearl circle, the large numeral '5' is prominently raised in the center of the field, denoting the denomination. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Buchdruckerei C. Haas was a printing house — the issuer here is not a bank or municipal authority but a private commercial printer in the small Bavarian market town of Hilpoltstein. Emergency token issues by print shops were not uncommon during the acute coin shortages of World War I and its immediate aftermath, when German municipalities and businesses alike were authorized to produce Kriegsgeld and Notgeld to keep local commerce moving. A printing firm had an obvious practical advantage: the tooling to produce the token was already on the premises.