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1/2 Mark - Hechingen
| Issuer | Stadt Hechingen (City of Hechingen) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1/2 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT HECHINGEN |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hechingen was the capital of the tiny principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen until its absorption into Prussia in 1850, and by 1918 it was a modest Württemberg district town with no particular monetary clout — which makes its wartime notgeld issue entirely unremarkable in origin but historically legible. Iron was the only practical option by late 1918; copper and nickel had long since been requisitioned for the war effort, and municipal authorities across Germany were improvising small-change solutions as the imperial economy collapsed beneath them.