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50 Pfennig - Heiligenhafen
| Issuer | Heiligenhafen, City of |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Beaded border encircles the entire design. A central shield-shaped coat of arms depicts the municipal arms of Heiligenhafen, featuring a stylized town gateway with multiple towers and two crossed anchors or staffs surmounted by a decorative finial above the battlements. The circular legend, divided by two five-pointed stars at the left and right, reads STADTGEMEINDE above and HEILIGENHAFEN below, running along the inner edge of the beaded rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Heiligenhafen is a small Baltic fishing port in Schleswig-Holstein, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to locally issued Notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1921. Zinc was the material of necessity — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort years earlier, leaving municipal treasuries to work with whatever the Kriegsmetallgesellschaft hadn't already claimed.
The Funck reference places this among the better-documented Holstein issues.