Eberbach's wartime notgeld program is well-documented in iron and zinc, but a pattern struck in .999 gold sits entirely outside the utilitarian calculus of municipal emergency coinage. Funck 106.2 is presumed a presentation or approval piece — the kind of object a city council member or mint representative might retain rather than anything approaching a circulation proposal. Germany's non-ferrous metal requisitions of 1917 would have made a gold municipal issue not just impractical but legally incoherent.
At 3.84 grams, the planchet weight bears no relationship to the coin's nominal face value under any wartime conversion rate.
Eberbach's wartime notgeld program is well-documented in iron and zinc, but a pattern struck in .999 gold sits entirely outside the utilitarian calculus of municipal emergency coinage. Funck 106.2 is presumed a presentation or approval piece — the kind of object a city council member or mint representative might retain rather than anything approaching a circulation proposal. Germany's non-ferrous metal requisitions of 1917 would have made a gold municipal issue not just impractical but legally incoherent.
At 3.84 grams, the planchet weight bears no relationship to the coin's nominal face value under any wartime conversion rate.