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5 Pfennig - Neumarkt Schlesien
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Neumarkt (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a raised pearl border following the flan edge and an inner circular pearl ring. Within the central field, the coat of arms of Neumarkt in Silesia is depicted, featuring a heraldic eagle and stylized armorial charges in low relief. The date '1917' appears in the lower exergual area below the pearl ring. The legend 'SPARMARKE' arcs across the upper portion between the pearl ring and the outer border, flanked by decorative rosette stops. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Neumarkt in Silesia — today Środa Śląska in Poland — issued this notgeld piece in 1917 as the wartime metal shortage stripped German municipalities of their small-change supply. Iron was the fallback precisely because it was deemed too strategically necessary for munitions to hoard, yet municipalities issued it anyway. The Stadtsparkasse, a municipal savings institution rather than a traditional bank, took on the issuing role as civic infrastructure collapsed under the pressures of the fourth year of war.