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5 Pfennig - Leobschütz
| Issuer | Leobschütz (Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the heraldic lion of Leobschütz in rampant pose, facing left, wearing a crown, rendered in bold relief. A six-pointed star ornament is positioned in the upper right field above the lion. The circular legend STADT LEOBSCHÜTZ arcs along the lower and right periphery of the coin in incuse Latin lettering. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Leobschütz — today Głubczyce in southwestern Poland — issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as the German imperial economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions. Copper and nickel had been commandeered for munitions years earlier, forcing municipalities across Silesia to strike emergency coinage in whatever base materials remained available. Iron was the unsentimental answer.
The Funck reference places this among the better-documented Silesian municipal issues, though survival rates for iron notgeld are notoriously uneven given the metal's susceptibility to corrosion.