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5 Pfennig - Unna
| Issuer | Unna (notgeld), City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD DER STADT UNNA • 1917 • |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Unna's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, forced into existence by the wartime hoarding of copper and nickel that stripped small-denomination Reichscoinage from everyday transactions almost overnight. The Imperial government's priority was metal for shell casings, not pfennigs.
Zinc was the default fallback — cheap, workable, but corrosive in humid conditions, which explains why surviving examples in genuinely clean, uncorroded state are harder to locate than the catalog numbers suggest.