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50 Pfennig - Bischofsburg
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Bischofsburg |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border frames the coin, with the circumferential Latin legend reading MAGISTRAT DER STADT BISCHOFSBURG flanked by two six-pointed stars and the date 1918. An inner beaded circle encloses the central device, which depicts a civic building surmounted by a bishop's mitre, with the municipal coat of arms displayed prominently in the foreground. The design conveys the civic and ecclesiastical heritage of the city of Bischofsburg in a straightforward emergency-issue style. |
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| Reverse description | An outer pearl border frames the coin, within which the circumferential legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE (small change substitute token) is inscribed in raised Latin letters. An inner beaded circle encloses the central field, which bears the large numeral denomination 50 in bold raised figures. Below the inner beaded circle, five six-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc of the coin, serving as decorative separators in the field between the two borders. |
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Bischofsburg — known today as Biskupiec in northeastern Poland — issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as the German imperial supply chain collapsed under wartime metal requisitions. Copper and nickel had been systematically stripped for munitions production since 1915, forcing hundreds of small municipalities to strike emergency coinage in whatever base material remained locally available. Iron was the default of last resort.
The Funck 42.1 attribution places this among the earliest documented issues for the town.