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5 Pfennig - Stein bei Nürnberg
| Issuer | Gemeinde Stein bei Nürnberg (Municipality of Stein near Nuremberg) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold, large numeral '5' centered in the field, serving as the sole denomination indicator without any accompanying unit inscription. The numeral is rendered in a plain, utilitarian style with slightly rounded strokes. An unbroken inner pearl border runs along the full circumference, providing the only decorative element on an otherwise plain, flat field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 |
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Issued in 1917 as the German wartime economy stripped copper and nickel from municipal circulation, this is a piece of Kriegsgeld — emergency coinage authorized at the local level when the central supply of small change collapsed under the pressure of metal requisitions for armaments. Stein bei Nürnberg, a small industrial town south of the city, was among hundreds of German municipalities forced to self-provision denominations that the Reichsbank could no longer guarantee. Zinc was the default material precisely because it had been rejected for military-critical uses, making it briefly available for civilian coinage.