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5 Pfennig - Zell im Wiesental
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Zell im Wiesental |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE ★ ZELL IM WIESENTAL ★ |
| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border encircles the entire reverse field, within which the legend KRIEGSGELD arcs across the upper portion. At the center, a large numeral 5 denoting the denomination is enclosed within an inner pearl circle surmounted by a small crown device. Three six-pointed star ornaments are evenly distributed around the lower portion of the inner field, serving as decorative separators. The design is simple and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency coinage (Kriegsgeld) struck for local circulation. |
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Zell im Wiesental is a small textile-mill town in the southern Black Forest, and this piece belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Kriegsgeld issued across Germany from 1916 onward as the Imperial government's zinc and copper stocks were redirected entirely toward shell casings and military hardware. Hundreds of towns struck their own emergency coinage under Reich authorization, and Funck's catalog alone lists over a thousand distinct municipal types from this period.
The Funck 623.1 designation places this among the earlier documented varieties from Zell.