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5 Pfennig - Moosburg Tonwerk A and M Ostenrieder
| Issuer | Tonwerk A. & M. Ostenrieder, Moosburg an der Isar |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | The large numeral '5' occupies the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. A circular Latin legend surrounds the beaded border, reading 'Tonwerk Moosburg' in the upper arc and 'A. & M. Ostenrieder' in the lower arc, with two five-pointed stars serving as separators. The design is plain and utilitarian, typical of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Tonwerk A. & M. Ostenrieder was a brickworks and ceramics operation in Moosburg an der Isar, Bavaria — one of hundreds of German industrial firms that issued private emergency coinage (Kriegsgeld) during World War I when the imperial government's small-denomination coins vanished from circulation, hoarded by a civilian population that correctly anticipated worse to come. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had gone to the military.
These factory-issued pieces circulated exclusively among workers and in company-adjacent commerce, redeemable only within a narrow local orbit.