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71/2 Pfennig - Ingolstadt G.G.F.
| Issuer | Ingolstadt, City of |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 71/2 |
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Ingolstadt's wartime notgeld fractional issues were struck to address the near-total disappearance of small change during the First World War, when hoarding and metal requisitions drained conventional coinage from circulation almost entirely. The denomination itself — seven and a half Pfennig — is a product of pure practicality: three pieces equaled a Groschen-equivalent transaction value without requiring the city to issue a 10-Pfennig piece that might compete with imperial currency.
The "G.G.F." suffix identifies the issuing authority as the Geschäftsstelle der Gefangenenlager-Fürsorge, a prisoner-of-war camp welfare organization operating within the Ingolstadt garrison complex.