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5 Pfennig - Nürnberg Vereinigte Margarine Werke
| Issuer | Vereinigte Margarine Werke, Nürnberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a dotted border mirroring the obverse. The central field features the large numeral '5' in raised relief, enclosed within a rope-twist inner circle. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs along the upper arc in Latin capital letters. Three six-pointed star ornaments are evenly spaced along the lower arc of the field, serving as decorative separators. The design is functional and austere, consistent with wartime emergency coinage practice. |
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| Mintage | ND |
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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.