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5 Pfennig - Rosenheim
| Issuer | Rosenheim, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.2 mm |
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| Obverse description | A pearl border frames the octagonal flan, with the circular legend STADTGEMEINDE ROSENHEIM running along the periphery. At center, the municipal coat of arms of Rosenheim is depicted as a heraldic shield bearing a stylized Tudor rose in high relief against a vertically lined field. The numeral 5, denoting the denomination, appears prominently in the lower portion of the legend, below the shield. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Rosenheim's zinc notgeld fractionals were authorized under the wartime emergency coinage ordinances that stripped German municipalities of their normal fiscal constraints and allowed local authorities to plug the chronic small-change shortage created by hoarding. By 1917, copper and nickel had been redirected almost entirely to military production, leaving zinc as the only viable base metal for civic emergency issues. Rosenheim, a market town in Upper Bavaria with no particular minting tradition, joined dozens of similar communities in issuing pieces that were never intended to outlast the war.