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5 Pfennig - Salzungen
| Issuer | Salzungen (Saxe-Meiningen), City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | A robed standing figure, identifiable as a bishop or saint associated with the city of Salzungen, occupies the central field, holding a palm branch in the left hand and a reliquary or book in the right hand, with a mitre upon the head. The figure stands on a short baseline with the design rendered in fine relief against a flat field. The circular legend MAGISTRAT SALZUNGEN 1918 runs along the periphery, flanked by a continuous pearl border that frames the entire design. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Salzungen issued this notgeld piece in 1918 as the Imperial German military machine consumed copper, nickel, and zinc at a rate that stripped domestic circulation bare. Iron was the fallback — cheap, abundant, and deeply unpopular with the public because it rusted in the pocket. The Thuringian spa town had neither the industrial output nor the population to justify a prolonged emergency currency program, making surviving examples from this issue relatively scarce outside specialist collections.