50 Pfennig - Boppard

Boppard's 1919 iron notgeld issue emerged from the same postwar collapse that forced hundreds of German municipalities to strike their own emergency coinage when central coin supplies dried up. Iron was the default fallback — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort years earlier, and the Reichsbank had neither the capacity nor the metal to restock local circulation quickly. Boppard, a small Rhine town of no particular monetary significance, was simply doing what every Bürgermeister along the river was doing that year.