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5 Pfennig - Marktleuthen
| Issuer | Marktleuthen, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 18.1 mm |
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| Obverse description | Pearl border encircles the central municipal coat of arms of Marktleuthen, featuring a divided shield with a rampant lion in the lower half and a dotted band in the upper half, surmounted by an ornamental scroll crest. The circular legend reads MARKTGEMEINDE above and MARKTLEUTHEN below, with the date 1917 divided across the left and right fields flanking the shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | MARKTGEMEINDE 1917 MARKTLEUTHEN |
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Marktleuthen is a small market town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and this iron piece belongs to the enormous wave of municipal notgeld issued across Germany from 1916 onward as the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from everyday circulation. Iron was the compromise — abundant, cheap, and politically acceptable as a patriotic substitute. Most of these local issues circulated only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.
Funck 322.7 places this among the catalogued Bavarian municipal emissions, though Marktleuthen's small population meant production volumes were modest.