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50 Pfennig - Bad Mergentheim
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Mergentheim |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Bad Mergentheim is displayed prominently at center, featuring a quartered shield with a Teutonic cross, an eagle, and floral devices, rendered in fine relief. The arms are enclosed within a beaded inner circle, beyond which a circular Latin legend reads the issuing authority's name. Two six-pointed stars flank the legend as decorative separators. The overall design is typical of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the World War I era, with a plain, functional aesthetic suited to the octagonal iron flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE ✶ BAD MERGENTHEIM ✶ |
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Bad Mergentheim issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 under the pressures of wartime metal shortages that had stripped Germany's circulation of copper and nickel years earlier. By this point, municipalities across the Reich were producing their own emergency coinage almost as a matter of routine, the central authorities having long since lost the ability to supply adequate small change to provincial towns.
Iron was a poor substitute — it corrodes readily, which accounts for the difficulty in finding survivors without pitting or rust encroachment along the fields.