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| Issuer | Karlstadt am Main, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Karlstadt am Main issued this notgeld piece in 1917 as the German imperial war economy stripped municipal circulation of nearly all base metal coinage. Zinc was the compromise material — abundant enough to strike, but notoriously prone to corrosion, which explains why uncorroded survivors are harder to find than the mintage might suggest. The nickel-plated variant was almost certainly a production experiment rather than a planned issue, as Funck documents it as a secondary variety rather than an independent emission.