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50 Pfennig - Bergzabern
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Bergzabern |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the municipal coat of arms of Bergzabern, depicting a heraldic lion passant on a divided shield, rendered in relief. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the circular Latin legend 'STADTGEMEINDE ★ BERGZABERN ★' running along the periphery, separated by two five-pointed stars positioned at the left and right. The overall composition is characteristic of Notgeld municipal emergency coinage of the First World War period. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE ★ BERGZABERN ★ |
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Bergzabern's 1917 iron Notgeld emerged from the same wartime metal emergency that stripped German circulation of copper and nickel — both redirected to munitions production under the Hindenburg Program. Municipal authorities across the Reich were left to improvise, and hundreds of small towns issued their own emergency coinage in iron, zinc, and even compressed coal dust. Bergzabern, a small spa town in the Palatinate, was no exception.
The Funck reference places this among a numbered series of variants, suggesting the town issued multiple types — not unusual for municipalities that ran successive emergency issues as the war dragged on.