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50 Pfennig - Fürth in Bayern
| Issuer | City of Fürth |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT FÜRTH in BAYERN |
| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, the large bold denomination numeral '50' dominates the central field in high relief. The legend 'KRIEGSNOTGELD' (war emergency money) arcs across the upper portion of the field following the inner beaded rim. The date '1917' is positioned in the lower field beneath the denomination numeral, completing the design in a plain, utilitarian fashion appropriate to wartime emergency coinage. |
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Fürth's 1917 iron Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, forced into existence by the wartime metal requisitions that stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation almost entirely. Iron was the reluctant substitute — cheap, abundant, and deeply unpopular with the public because it rusted in pocket and purse alike. Fürth, a dense industrial city in Franconia sharing a tramline with Nuremberg, had practical reasons to move quickly on a local substitute: its manufacturing workforce needed small change daily.