1 Pfennig - Gardelegen

Gardelegen issued notgeld coinage during the post-WWI emergency period when the collapse of the imperial monetary system and acute metal shortages left municipal authorities scrambling to plug gaps in everyday small change. Zinc was the practical fallback — cheap, workable, and already familiar from wartime coinage production. Most pieces from district-level issuers like Gardelegen saw brief, intense local circulation before being withdrawn or hoarded as curiosities.