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5 Pfennig - Kirchenlamitz
| Issuer | Kirchenlamitz, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, the large numeral '5' dominates the central field as the denomination indicator. The curved legend KRIEGS-NOTMÜNZE arches across the upper portion of the field, while the date 1917 appears along the lower periphery, flanked on each side by a five-pointed star. The design is spare and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency coinage production. |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGS-NOTMÜNZE 5 ★ 1917 ★ |
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Kirchenlamitz is a small town in Upper Franconia, and its 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany after the Imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production. Zinc was the fallback — cheap, available, but prone to corrosion, which is why surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than the original mintages suggest.