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50 Pfennig - Bitterfeld Bankverein G.m.b.H
| Issuer | Bitterfelder Bankverein e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#44.3A, Men05#2917.5, Men18#3746.5 |
| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld piece with a beaded inner border enclosing a central design featuring flanking coats of arms with a tower motif centered between them. The issuer's name arcs around the upper portion of the beaded circle in raised Latin lettering, with a small ornamental star serving as a stop mark. The flat fields of each octagonal facet are plain and unadorned, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Obverse lettering | BITTERFELDER BANKVEREIN e.G.m.u.H. ✦ |
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Issued by a provincial cooperative bank in Bitterfeld — a small Saxon industrial town whose chemical and mining industries made it a significant wartime production center — this piece belongs to the vast emergency coinage wave that swept Germany from 1916 onward as nickel and copper were requisitioned for munitions. Zinc was the compromise metal: abundant, workable, but prone to corrosion, which accounts for the high attrition rate among surviving examples.