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5 Pfennig - Naila
| Issuer | Stadt Naila (City of Naila) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Weight | 1.6 g |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Naila occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield with a crosshatched checkerboard pattern on the left half and a standing male figure on the right half, flanked on either side by decorative foliate or wheat-stalk ornaments. The shield is surmounted by a mural crown with battlements, symbolising the town's civic status. The legend STADT NAILA arches along the upper periphery, with a six-pointed star serving as a separator on each side. The overall design is rendered in a plain, utilitarian relief consistent with wartime notgeld production. |
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| Obverse lettering | ★ STADT NAILA ★ |
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Naila is a small town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it issued its own emergency coinage — Kriegsgeld — as the Imperial war economy stripped copper and nickel from circulation for armaments production. Iron was the fallback. These local issues were authorized under wartime necessity rather than any coherent federal policy, which is why the catalog numbers for Notgeld from this period run into the tens of thousands across Germany.
Funck remains the primary reference for Bavarian municipal iron issues; the Men05 and Men18 cross-references reflect successive Menzel catalog editions attempting to consolidate what is an inherently chaotic corpus.