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5 Pfennig - Mühlhausen in Thüringen
| Issuer | Mühlhausen (Thuringia), City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT MÜHLHAUSEN ★ I / THÜRINGEN ★ |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE ★ ★ ★ |
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Mühlhausen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as Germany's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage production entirely. The city — better known historically as the site of Thomas Müntzer's ill-fated theocratic commune during the 1525 Peasants' War — found itself, nearly four centuries later, printing and striking its own emergency currency like dozens of other Thuringian municipalities scrambling to maintain small-change liquidity. Funck 342.1 distinguishes this from later municipal issues in the series.