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20 Pfennig - Zwiesel
| Issuer | Stadt Zwiesel (City of Zwiesel) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 20 Pfennigs (20 Pfennige) (0.20) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized landscape scene featuring two bare, branching trees prominently rising from a ground line, with a townscape of buildings and a church steeple visible in the lower background. A dotted border runs along the inner rim of the coin. The circular legend reads STADT ZWIESEL along the upper periphery, with the date 1919 inscribed in the lower exergual area, separated from the central design by a horizontal line. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Zwiesel is a glassmaking town in the Bavarian Forest, and this notgeld issue emerged from the same municipal cash crisis that hit hundreds of small German cities in 1919 — war reparations had gutted the national treasury, and the Reichsbank could not keep fractional coinage in circulation fast enough to meet demand. Zinc was the practical choice: cheap, available, and already familiar from wartime substitute coinage.
Funck#632.13 is one of several Zwiesel zinc types from this period, distinguished by die number within the Men18 catalog sequence.