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50 Pfennig - Elberfeld
| Issuer | City of Elberfeld |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD 1917 50 ∙ Pfennig ∙ |
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Elberfeld issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as the war economy stripped conventional coinage metals entirely from civilian use. The city — then an independent industrial center in the Wupper valley before its forced merger into the newly created city of Wuppertal in 1929 — administered its own emergency currency through the worst of the wartime shortages. Zinc was the compromise material: abundant enough to machine, stable enough to circulate, but deeply unpopular with the public accustomed to nickel and copper.