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5 Pfennig - Schnufenhofen
| Issuer | Gemeindeverwaltung Schnufenhofen (Municipality of Schnufenhofen) |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDEVERWALTUNG SCHNUFENHOFEN 5 ✿ |
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Schnufenhofen is a small village in Bavaria, and this zinc 5 Pfennig belongs to the vast category of German municipal notgeld — emergency coinage issued by local authorities during the metal shortages of World War I, when imperial mints could no longer supply adequate small change to civilian populations. Zinc was the material of necessity: copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort by 1916, leaving municipalities to work with whatever the Reich allocated.
The Funck catalog remains the standard reference for this material, and the Men18 cross-reference confirms this as a documented type rather than a spurious piece.