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50 Pfennig - Herrenberg
| Issuer | City of Herrenberg |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of this octagonal notgeld token is framed by a plain outer rim, within which the legend KLEINGELD arcs across the upper field and ERSATZ curves along the lower field, each separated from the date side by a five-pointed star at left and right. A dotted inner circle encloses the large numeral 50 at centre, rendered in bold relief with horizontally lined shading decorating the interior of the digits, denoting the token's face value of fifty Pfennig. |
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Herrenberg's 1917 iron Notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, authorized after the wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel stripped the Reichsbank's ability to supply subsidiary coinage. Municipalities were left to solve the small-change shortage themselves. Iron was the unsentimental solution — abundant, cheap, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to rust and difficult to distinguish by feel in pocket change.
The Funck 209.2 designation indicates a catalogued die variety, suggesting at least one other confirmed variant exists for this type.