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5 Pfennig - Landau
| Issuer | City of Landau in der Pfalz |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain field at center bearing the large numeral '5' in relief. Surrounding the central denomination, a continuous legend reads 'STADT LANDAU PFALZ' arranged around the periphery, separated by a dotted border running along the inside of each octagonal facet. A small six-pointed star appears at the base of the legend as a divider. The overall design is utilitarian in character, consistent with wartime emergency coinage production. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Landau's 1917 zinc Pfennig issues belong to the broader Kriegsgeld phenomenon, when the Imperial German war economy stripped copper and nickel from the civilian monetary supply for munitions production, forcing hundreds of municipalities to print or strike their own emergency money. Landau, a fortified garrison town in the Palatinate with a long history of French and German occupation, was among the smaller issuers — its notgeld series is modest in scope, and zinc pieces from this issue show accelerated corrosion when stored poorly, making clean survivors genuinely harder to find than mintage figures alone would suggest.