50 Pfennig - Kitzingen

Kitzingen's zinc 50 Pfennig belongs to the flood of German municipal notgeld issued after 1916, when the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped civilian coinage almost entirely from circulation. Towns and cities across the Reich took matters into their own hands, producing locally authorized emergency pieces to keep small transactions functioning. Zinc was the compromise material — deemed insufficiently strategic for shell casings, yet durable enough for coin production.

The Funck 248.3 designation places this among documented die varieties for the issue.