50 Pfennig - Fulda

Fulda's 1917 zinc Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, triggered when the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian minting. Zinc was the default substitute — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who correctly associated it with desperation. Most pieces saw hard, indifferent circulation before the broader Notgeld paper flood made small metal tokens largely redundant.

Funck 146.2 denotes a specific die variant within the Fulda series, distinguishing it from at least one other confirmed type.