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50 Pfennig - Freystadt Schlesien
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Freystadt in Niederschlesien |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | A pearl border encircles the outer rim, with the circular Latin legend reading 'MAGISTRAT D. STADT FREYSTADT N/SCHL.' surrounding a central shield-shaped municipal coat of arms. The arms depict a fortified city gate with two flanking towers surmounted by crowns, a central keep with a pointed roof, and an arched bridge with three openings at the base, rendered in raised relief against a plain field. The design is contained within a raised inner circle separating the legend from the central device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Freystadt — now Kożuchów in western Poland — issued this iron notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period, when copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort and official coinage supply collapsed at the local level. Municipal authorities across Silesia stepped in with their own emergency issues, the Magistrat here among hundreds of such bodies exercising a de facto minting function that the Reichsbank was in no position to contest. The Funck and Menzel catalogue variants (.2 suffix) indicate a secondary die or edge distinction from the primary type.