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5 Pfennig - Pforzheim Kollmar and Jourdan A.G.
| Issuer | Kollmar & Jourdan A.G., Pforzheim |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A finely executed pearl border runs continuously around the inner edge of the reverse, enclosing a plain, unadorned field. The large numeral '5', rendered in an elegant serif style with a distinctive curled lower terminal, is centered boldly in the field to indicate the denomination of five Pfennig. The design is deliberately simple, with no additional legend or ornament, reflecting the emergency character of this Notgeld issue. |
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| Mintage | 1916 |
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Kollmar & Jourdan was one of Pforzheim's dominant jewelry and metalware manufacturers — a city so thoroughly defined by its goldsmithing trade that it earned the nickname "Goldstadt." By 1916, the wartime metal requisitions had stripped municipal authorities of the copper and nickel needed for orthodox coinage, forcing private firms and municipalities alike to issue emergency Notgeld in whatever materials remained available. Zinc, normally a production input rather than a monetary one, became the default. That a jewelry company was pressed into striking coins is a small but pointed irony of the German home-front economy.