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5 Pfennigs - Nürnberg Dampfbäckerei Karl Polster
| Issuer | Dampfbäckerei Karl Polster (Nuremberg) |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Outer pearl border encircles the entire design. A circular legend reading DAMPFBACKEREI KARL POLSTER and NÜRNBERG runs between the outer pearl border and an inner pearl circle, with three small rosette ornaments at the base. The numeral 5, denoting the denomination, is prominently centered within the inner pearl circle in bold relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | DAMPFBACKEREI KARL POLSTER 5 NÜRNBERG ✿ ✿ ✿ |
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Notgeld tokens of this type proliferated across German bakeries, butchers, and coal merchants during the severe zinc and copper shortages of the First World War, when the Reich requisitioned base metals for munitions and left small-denomination coinage functionally absent from daily commerce. Polster's Dampfbäckerei — a steam-powered industrial bakery, a relatively modern operation for a Nuremberg of that period — issued these tokens to maintain bread sales when making change became genuinely impractical.
Zinc was the compromise material: cheaper to obtain than brass, easier to strike than iron, but prone to corrosion and surface degradation in pocket wear.