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5 Pfennig - Rügenwalde
| Issuer | City of Rügenwalde |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT RÜGENWALDE • ● • |
| Reverse description | Octagonal flan with a continuous pearl border following the eight-sided periphery. The legend NOTGELD arcs across the upper field, flanked by a six-pointed star on each side at the mid-field level. The large numeral 5 occupies the central field prominently, with the denomination inscription PFENNIG curving below along the inner pearl border. The overall design is bold and unadorned, consistent with the utilitarian character of German Notgeld emergency coinage. |
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Rügenwalde, a small Pomeranian town on the Baltic coast, issued iron notgeld during World War I when the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production. Municipal authorities across Germany were forced to improvise with whatever base metals remained available, and iron — cheap, abundant, and strategically irrelevant — became the default substitute in dozens of smaller towns. Rügenwalde is now Darłowo, Poland, its German civic history largely erased by the postwar population expulsions of 1945–46.