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5 Pfennigs - Ansbach K.B. Hoflieferant Friedrich Graf
| Issuer | Friedrich Graf (K.B. Hoflieferant, Ansbach) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 5 * * * |
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| Mintage | ND |
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Friedrich Graf held the title K.B. Hoflieferant — königlich-bayerischer Hoflieferant, a royal Bavarian court supplier designation — indicating he operated under official patronage from the Bavarian crown. Merchants and tradespeople issued zinc notgeld tokens like this one during the acute small-change shortages that plagued Germany in the First World War and its immediate aftermath, when metal coinage disappeared from circulation as hoarding and wartime requisitioning stripped the economy of low-denomination coins. Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference.