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5 Pfennig - Sömmerda Dreyse and Collenbusch
| Issuer | Dreyse & Collenbusch, Sömmerda |
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| Weight | 1.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain pearl border running along the rim. A circular beaded inner border encloses the large numeral '5' in the center field, with a small central perforation (hole) piercing the upper portion of the numeral. The circular legend reading 'DREYSE & COLLENBUSCH' above and 'SÖMMERDA' below, separated by dot stops, occupies the annular space between the pearl rim and the beaded inner circle. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Dreyse & Collenbusch was the armaments firm founded in Sömmerda by Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse, inventor of the Zündnadelgewehr — the needle-fire rifle that gave Prussian infantry a decisive advantage at Königgrätz in 1866. The factory town's dependence on a single industrial employer made internal scrip a practical necessity, with zinc chosen almost certainly due to wartime metal allocation pressures that stripped conventional coinage metals from civilian use.