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5 Pfennig - Sterkrade
| Issuer | Stadt Sterkrade (City of Sterkrade) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 19.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | A pearl bead border encircles the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Sterkrade occupies the central field, depicted as a quartered shield surmounted by a mural crown with three towers. The issuer's name is inscribed in two arcs of raised Latin capital lettering, with STADT above and STERKRADE below the arms, each legend separated by a raised dot at the horizontal axis. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ● STERKRADE ● |
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Sterkrade issued this piece in 1917 as civilian zinc coinage vanished into the war machine. The city, then an independent industrial municipality in the Ruhr — later absorbed into Oberhausen in 1929 — was among hundreds of German towns forced to produce their own Kriegsgeld simply to keep local commerce functioning as imperial monetary supply collapsed under wartime metal requisition.