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50 Pfennig - Landeshut, Schlesien
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Landeshut i/Schl. (City Magistrate of Landeshut in Silesia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRAT DER STADT LANDESHUT I/SCHL ✿ |
| Reverse description | The reverse displays the large numeral '50' prominently at center within an inner dotted circle border, denoting the denomination of 50 Pfennig. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs along the upper periphery between the inner dotted border and the outer pearl rim. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc between the inner and outer borders, serving as decorative separators. The entire design is contained within a continuous pearl border. |
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Landeshut — now Kamienna Góra in southwestern Poland — was a textile manufacturing town whose municipal government, like hundreds of others across Germany, was forced to issue its own emergency coinage in 1917 as the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for the war effort. Zinc was the compromise material: abundant, workable, but prone to corrosion, which explains why surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than mintage figures alone would suggest.