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50 Pfennig - Greifenhagen
| Issuer | Greifenhagen, District of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the large bold numeral '50' in relief, occupying the majority of the coin's face. The denomination legend 'PFENNIG' is inscribed along the lower arc in capital letters. The issuer's name 'KREIS GREIFENHAGEN' curves along the upper periphery, flanked on either side by a raised dot serving as a decorative stop. The design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with the Notgeld emergency coinage aesthetic of the early Weimar Republic period. |
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| Obverse lettering | KREIS GREIFENHAGEN 50 PFENNIG |
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Greifenhagen — now Gryfino, Poland — was among hundreds of German municipalities and districts that issued emergency coinage (Notgeld) after the postwar metal shortage and economic disruption left official small change essentially absent from circulation. These iron pieces were authorized locally and accepted within limited geographic boundaries, a patchwork monetary arrangement that the Reichsbank tolerated but never formally endorsed.
The Funck#170.2 designation distinguishes this from at least one other variety in the Greifenhagen series — a reminder that even minor district issues sometimes generated multiple die states or edge variants worth separating in a serious collection.