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5 Pfennig - Weida

Issuer City of Weida
Year 1918
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Value 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05)
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Obverse lettering STADTGEMEINDE WEIDA 1918
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Weida is a small town in Thuringia, and its 1918 zinc notgeld issue is a product of the acute metal shortages that gripped Germany as the war ground toward collapse. Municipal authorities across the country were authorized to produce emergency coinage when the central supply of small-denomination currency failed to meet local demand — Weida's issue being one of hundreds of such hyperlocal solutions. The Funck references distinguish two die varieties, suggesting at least two separate production runs or obverse/reverse pairings within the same authorization.

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