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| Issuer | Marktleuthen, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 |
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Marktleuthen is a small market town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and this piece belongs to the vast wave of German municipal notgeld issued when wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from the coinage supply after 1916. Thousands of towns and communes issued their own emergency pieces rather than go without small change entirely. The nickel-plated zinc construction is characteristic of the compromise materials available to local issuers at this stage of the war.