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5 Pfennig - Nürnberg Vereinigte Margarine Werke
| Issuer | Vereinigte Margarine Werke, Nürnberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a dotted border following the eight-sided periphery. The central field displays the large numeral '5' in bold raised relief. Surrounding the numeral, a double ring of raised dots frames the circular legend, which reads 'VEREINIGTE MARGARINE WERKE' along the upper arc and '* NÜRNBERG *' along the lower arc, all in Latin capital letters. The overall design is plain and utilitarian, characteristic of World War I-era German emergency small change tokens. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 5 ★★★ |
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Issued in 1918 by a Nuremberg margarine manufacturer, this is wartime Notgeld in its most industrial form — a private company minting its own small change because the Imperial German government had effectively lost control of the copper and nickel supply. Metal coinage below 10 Pfennig had nearly vanished from circulation by mid-war, hoarded or melted, and factories with large workforces found themselves unable to make change at canteen windows. Zinc was the compromise material: abundant, cheap, and utterly graceless.