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50 Pfennig - Arnsberg
| Issuer | City of Arnsberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT ARNSBERG (WESTF.) ● 1918 ● |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Arnsberg's 1918 iron Pfennig issues belong to the broader wave of German municipal notgeld produced when wartime metal requisitioning stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage entirely. Iron was the compromise — abundant, cheap, and deeply unpopular with the public, who correctly anticipated that it would rust in pocket and purse. The city of Arnsberg, a provincial Westphalian administrative center of no particular monetary significance, found itself improvising currency alongside hundreds of other German municipalities that year.
The Funck reference places this among a numbered series of Arnsberg types, suggesting the city issued multiple denominations or varieties through the same period rather than a single emergency piece.