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50 Pfennig - Haynau Haynauer Stadtblatt
| Issuer | Haynauer Stadtblatt, Haynau (Silesia) |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan, enclosing a raised rope circle that frames the central field. The large numeral '50' occupies the center of the field. The circular legend 'HAYNAUER STADTBLATT' arcs around the rope border, separated by two five-pointed stars at the left and right, reading clockwise around the denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | HAYNAUER 50 ★ STADTBLATT ★ |
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Haynau — now Chojnów in southwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Silesian textile town whose local paper, the Haynauer Stadtblatt, issued this zinc notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1917–1918. Municipal authorities and private institutions alike were authorized to issue emergency coinage when the imperial government could not maintain sufficient copper and nickel coinage in circulation, wartime metal requisitions having stripped the standard supply chain bare. Zinc was the compromise material — cheap, available, deeply unpopular with the public.