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5 Pfennig - Tangermünde
| Issuer | Stadt Tangermünde (City of Tangermünde) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a plain field enclosed by an inner pearl circle, within which the large numeral '5' appears prominently in the center. A circular legend reading 'NOTGELD ★ STADT TANGERMÜNDE ★ 1919' surrounds the inner pearl circle, itself bordered by an outer pearl rim running close to the coin's edge. The two five-pointed stars serve as separators within the legend. The overall design is typographic in character, with no pictorial motifs, reflecting the utilitarian nature of wartime Notgeld coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 |
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Tangermünde issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1919 as municipal credit collapsed in the immediate aftermath of defeat and abdication. Small-denomination emergency coinage of this type filled the gap left by hoarded copper and nickel, which had been systematically stripped from circulation — and in many cases melted — during the war years. The city, a modest Elbe trading town with a medieval fortification history far exceeding its postwar economic relevance, had no special minting infrastructure and contracted production through standard commercial channels.
The Funck 531.1 attribution places it among the better-documented Saxony-Anhalt municipal issues.