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50 Pfennig - Bad Tölz
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bad Tölz |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal flan with a continuous pearl border following the eight-sided contour. The large numeral '50' dominates the central field in bold raised figures. A circular legend surrounds the denomination, reading GUT FÜR FÜNFZIG PFENNIG, with a small cross ornament completing the inscription at the base of the design. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUT FÜR FÜNFZIG PFENNIG 50 ✠ |
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Bad Tölz issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 under the same wartime metal shortages that stripped German municipalities of their copper and nickel coinage — both metals redirected into munitions production under Imperial ordinances beginning in 1916. Local authorities across Bavaria were left to improvise emergency currency in whatever base materials remained available.
Zinc was notoriously difficult to strike cleanly, and many Bavarian municipal issues from this period show edge splitting and surface granulation on surviving examples.