2 Pfennig - Marburg an der Lahn

Marburg's 1917 iron notgeld emerged from the same municipal scramble that hit German cities across the board that year — the Imperial government had effectively stripped small-denomination coinage from circulation through wartime metal requisitioning, leaving local authorities to improvise. Iron was the fallback precisely because it held no strategic value to the war effort, which is why so many of these city-issued pieces survive in better condition than their pre-war zinc or copper counterparts: nobody hoarded iron.

The Funck 317.2 designation places this among multiple die variants documented for Marburg's issue.