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5 Pfennig - Zilly D - Zilly
| Issuer | Municipality of Zilly |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 |
| Edge | Plain |
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Zilly is a small village in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1917, it issued its own emergency coinage — Kriegsgeldersatz — as the Imperial war economy stripped copper and nickel from circulation for munitions production. Iron was the stopgap. Most of these hyperlocal Notgeld issues saw extremely limited distribution, often confined to a single employer's payroll or a village market, which is precisely why survivors tend to appear in either near-mint or heavily corroded condition with almost nothing in between.