A fairly short post this month. Mainly because I got something I have already talked about before. In this post I wrote back in 2017 I talked about my favourite numismatic material I like to collect. Well this month I got myself several notgeld coins to add to my collection.
Two of them are 5 pfennig coins, and the other is 10 pfennig. They were made in two different towns within Germany, with the coins from Düren being of boring design. Both coins feature the value of the coin, and the city name on both faces. The last coin, a 5 pfennig, was made in Bonn and shows a design of one of the bridges which stretch over the Rhine in the city. Both cities are found in the Rhine area of Germany, although Bonn actually straddles the river. The 5 pfennig coins seem to be made from iron, whilst the 10 is made from zinc.
The coins date from the last few years of WWI, when war critical supplies are running low within Germany. As explained in my linked blog post, notgeld were issued by local administrations to help bridge the void left by a failing central government at the time. Although most forms of notgeld often seen are in the form of banknotes, as you can see coins were also issued.
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