50 Pfennig - Dinkelsbühl

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.