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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 1950-2001 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | A kneeling female figure, rendered in a naturalistic relief style, is depicted in left profile, planting a young oak sapling into the ground. The figure holds the small tree carefully with both hands at its base, its characteristic lobed leaves clearly visible in the upper right of the field. The date of issue appears in the lower exergue below a thin horizontal line. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1989 |
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The 50 Pfennig was one of the first coins issued by the newly constituted Federal Republic, with the earliest pieces struck at the Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart mints in 1950 — before West Germany had even joined NATO or regained full sovereignty. Production ran across five decades and seven mint facilities, making die variety collecting within this series a legitimate subspecialty. The Frankfurt mint struck pieces only briefly in the early 1950s before closing, and those issues carry a distinct "F" mintmark now disproportionately scarce relative to later dates.