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5 Pfennig - Ohligs
| Issuer | City of Ohligs |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Ohligs is centrally displayed, featuring a quartered shield with five stars arranged diagonally on the dexter side and a stylized eagle wing on the sinister side, surmounted by a triple-towered mural crown. The city name legend 'STADT- OHLIGS' flanks the arms horizontally in the field, with 'STADT' to the left and 'OHLIGS' to the right. The entire design is contained within a continuous pearl (beaded) border running along the coin's rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT- OHLIGS |
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Ohligs was an independent industrial town in the Rhineland — now absorbed into Solingen — that issued this piece under the notgeld emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German municipalities from 1916 onward, as wartime metal requisitioning stripped conventional coinage from circulation. Zinc was the concession material: iron was militarily strategic, copper was gone, and aluminum was rationed.
Funck's catalog distinguishes at least one variety for this type, suggesting die or planchet variation even within a single municipal issue of this modest denomination.