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5 Pfennig - Nürnberg A. Herbst and M. Ostertag Baugeschäft
| Issuer | A. Herbst & M. Ostertag Baugeschäft, Nürnberg |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain hole pierced near the left facet. A continuous pearl border frames the entire face. The issuer's legend curves around the upper and lower periphery, reading 'A. HERBST & M. OSTERTAG BAUGESCHÄFT' above and 'NÜRNBERG' below, each separated by a six-pointed star ornament. The large numeral '5' occupies the central field, enclosed within an inner dotted circle, denoting the denomination. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Notgeld issued by a private construction firm — Baugeschäft translates directly as building contractor — places this piece among the more unusual categories of German emergency coinage. During the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1921, municipalities, businesses, and even individual employers issued their own tokens to pay workers and facilitate commerce when official coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation. That a Nürnberg construction company felt compelled to mint its own 5 Pfennig pieces speaks to how thoroughly the crisis had disrupted everyday transactions at the street level.