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50 Pfennig - Duisburg Firma Peter Fix Söhne G.m.b.H
| Issuer | Firma Peter Fix Söhne G.m.b.H., Duisburg |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the octagonal format of the obverse, with an outer pearl rim tracing the eight-sided perimeter. An inner twisted rope border encloses the central field bearing the large raised numeral '50'. The surrounding legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arcs across the upper portion of the annular field, while three small six-pointed star ornaments are evenly spaced along the lower register between the rope border and the pearl rim. |
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This is a piece of German Notgeld — emergency private currency issued during the acute coin shortages of World War I and its immediate aftermath, when state minting capacity collapsed under wartime demand. Firms, municipalities, and even individual businesses were permitted to issue their own fractional tokens to keep commerce moving. Peter Fix Söhne G.m.b.H. was a Duisburg commercial operation, and zinc was the material of necessity — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort long before most such pieces entered circulation.