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5 Pfennig - Torgau
| Issuer | Stadt Torgau (City of Torgau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT TORGAU 1917 |
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| Mintage | 1917 - F#543.4 (Ø19.3 mm - 19.6 mm) - 1917 - F#543.4a) foot lines of letters are straight - 1917 - F#543.4b) foot lines of letters are notched - |
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Torgau issued iron notgeld in 1917 as the Imperial German war economy stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage. The city sits on the Elbe in Saxony and had been a fortified garrison town since the medieval period — its infrastructure for local administrative currency was well-established. Iron was chosen not by preference but by elimination; by mid-war, the Kriegsmetall requisitions had made traditional alloys essentially unavailable to municipal issuers.
The Funck reference places this among a numbered series of Torgau emissions, with the .4 suffix denoting a specific die state or variant within that type.