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50 Pfennig - Dinkelsbühl
| Issuer | City of Dinkelsbühl |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Within a continuous pearl border, the civic coat of arms of Dinkelsbühl occupies the central field, depicting a quartered shield surmounted by a mural crown with battlements. A circular legend in raised Latin lettering reads STADT DINKELSBÜHL, flanked by two stylised rosette ornaments, with the date 1917 inscribed along the lower arc between additional floral stops. The overall design is bold and utilitarian, consistent with wartime Notgeld production. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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Dinkelsbühl issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917, when wartime metal requisitions had stripped municipal and commercial bodies of any realistic access to copper or nickel. Zinc was the compromise material adopted across hundreds of German towns that year, though it corrodes aggressively in anything but ideal storage conditions — making clean survivors genuinely scarce. Funck 98.3 distinguishes this among what were likely several local issues from the city across the war years.