50 Pfennig - Herrenberg

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.