Schweinfurt issued iron notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I, when the Imperial German government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation almost entirely. Iron was the pragmatic fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to rust and difficult to distinguish by touch from other denominations.
The Funck reference places this piece firmly within the documented municipal emergency coinage series, with the .2 suffix indicating a recognized die variant from the primary type.
Schweinfurt issued iron notgeld during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I, when the Imperial German government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation almost entirely. Iron was the pragmatic fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to rust and difficult to distinguish by touch from other denominations.
The Funck reference places this piece firmly within the documented municipal emergency coinage series, with the .2 suffix indicating a recognized die variant from the primary type.