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50 Pfennig - Balingen
| Issuer | City of Balingen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the municipal coat of arms of Balingen at center, depicting a quartered shield surmounted by a stylized roof or gable motif with a branch, all rendered in low relief. A continuous circular legend surrounds the arms, reading 'OBERAMTSSTADT ✤ BALINGEN ✤', with four-pointed star separators flanking the city name. The entire design is contained within a prominent pearl or beaded border running along the rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Balingen's 1918 emergency coinage was a product of wartime metal requisitioning that stripped Germany's municipal mints of copper and nickel almost entirely. Zinc was the fallback for hundreds of German towns issuing Notgeld that year, and its corrosive instability in circulation means surviving examples in clean, uncorroded condition are considerably harder to locate than raw survival numbers suggest.