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5 Pfennig - Oldisleben
| Issuer | Municipality of Oldisleben (Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the large numeral '5' in bold relief, pierced at center by a circular hole approximately 2 mm in diameter. The field is encircled by a raised beaded border. The circular legend reads 'GEMEINDE' across the upper arc and 'OLDISLEBEN' across the lower arc, separated by five-pointed star ornaments at each side, all in incuse Latin lettering. |
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| Mintage | ND - die rotation exists |
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Oldisleben is a small agricultural town in Thuringia, and its 1917 notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage that swept German towns when wartime metal requisitions drained official small change from circulation. Zinc was the compromise material — iron and copper were priority war metals, and aluminum supplies were inconsistent. Hundreds of similarly obscure Thuringian municipalities issued pieces in this same narrow window before the German states rationalized emergency coinage production at a higher administrative level.