50 Pfennig - Lauingen

Lauingen, a small Bavarian town on the Danube, issued this zinc notgeld in 1917 as the imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped ordinary coinage from circulation almost entirely. Zinc was itself a controlled war material, which gives municipal issues of this type an inherent contradiction — towns minting emergency money from the same metals Berlin was simultaneously rationing for shell casings.

The Funck reference places this as variety .3, indicating at least three distinct die or text variants were produced for this single denomination and year.