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5 Pfennig - Neuhaus a. Rennweg
| Issuer | Municipality of Neuhaus am Rennweg (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a detailed townscape of Neuhaus am Rennweg, showing a prominent church tower with a pointed spire flanked by multi-storied municipal buildings to the left and coniferous trees to the right, evoking the wooded Thuringian landscape of the region. In the lower portion of the field, a decorative panel with horizontal striations, likely representing a stylized road or bridge motif, is framed by a dotted ornamental border. The entire composition fills the field to the rim and is enclosed within a beaded border matching that of the obverse. No legend or inscription appears on the reverse. The design is executed in low relief, consistent with the economical production methods of German World War I notgeld coinage. |
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Neuhaus am Rennweg is a small Thuringian town in the Rennsteig ridge area, and this piece is a product of the notgeld wave that swept German municipalities in 1918 as the imperial coinage system collapsed under wartime metal requisitioning. Zinc was one of the few base metals not yet fully absorbed by the war machine by that point, making it the default material for municipal emergency issues in the final year of the war.