50 Pfennig - Greifenhagen

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.