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50 Pfennig - Kornwestheim
| Issuer | Kornwestheim, Municipality 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 features a decorative cartouche enclosing a bound sheaf of wheat or grain standing upright, flanked on either side by a small rosette ornament and scrolling acanthus-style volutes. A small round hole is pierced at the top of the field. The circumferential legend reads GEMEINDE at the top arc and KORNWESTHEIM at the lower arc, separated by a five-pointed star on each side. The entire design is bordered by a continuous beaded inner rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSNOTGELD 50 ★ 1918 ★ |
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Kornwestheim issued this notgeld piece in 1918 as wartime metal requisitions stripped German municipalities of their copper and nickel coinage almost entirely. Iron was the fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public due to its tendency to rust in pocket wear. Municipal issues of this kind were technically illegal under imperial coinage law but tolerated out of sheer necessity as the Reichsbank lost control of small-denomination circulation in the war's final year.