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5 Pfennigs - Augsburg Eisenwerk Gebr. Frisch K.G.
| Issuer | Eisenwerk Gebr. Frisch K.G., Augsburg |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan perimeter, enclosing a circular legend reading EISENWERK GEBR. FRISCH K.G. above and AUGSBURG below, with a small five-pointed star at the lower left serving as a spacer. An inner pearl circle frames the central field, in which the large numeral 5 is prominently displayed in relief, denoting the denomination. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Augsburg's Eisenwerk Gebr. Frisch was an iron and metalworks firm that issued notgeld tokens during the acute small-change shortages of World War I and its immediate aftermath, when the Imperial government's metal requisitions had stripped conventional coinage from circulation almost entirely. Private industrial employers frequently issued their own denominated tokens to pay workers in fractional amounts the official monetary system could no longer supply.
The zinc composition here is itself a consequence of wartime material allocation — copper and nickel had been redirected to munitions production by 1916.