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50 Pfennig - Heiligenhafen
| Issuer | Heiligenhafen, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the municipal coat of arms of Heiligenhafen, depicting a fortified church or town gate with towers, surmounted by a small shield bearing a cross, all rendered in low relief. The arms are enclosed within a raised inner circle, itself surrounded by a dotted border ring. The circular legend STADTGEMEINDE, reading from upper left to upper right, and HEILIGENHAFEN, reading from lower left to lower right, frame the design in the outer annulus, separated by two six-pointed stars at the left and right margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE ★ HEILIGENHAFEN ★ |
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Heiligenhafen, a small Baltic port in Schleswig-Holstein, issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as the Imperial German economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions. Copper, nickel, and even zinc had been systematically pulled from civilian coinage to feed the war machine, leaving municipalities to fill the gap with whatever material remained available — hence iron.
The Funck reference places this among the documented municipal emergency issues, catalogued across thousands of German towns that temporarily became their own monetary authorities between 1916 and 1922.