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50 Pfennig - Lauingen
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Lauingen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | A pearl border encircles the entire obverse field. At center, the municipal coat of arms of Lauingen is depicted on a shield, featuring a crowned bust in left profile within the escutcheon. The date numerals '19' and '18' flank the shield at left and right respectively. The circular legend 'STADTGEMEINDE' arcs across the upper field and 'LAUINGEN' across the lower field, both in raised Latin capitals. |
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| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border frames the plain reverse field. The large numeral '50', denoting the denomination of fifty Pfennig, is boldly struck and centrally positioned within the field, occupying the majority of the available space. The design is austere and unadorned beyond the border, characteristic of wartime notgeld emergency coinage. |
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Lauingen's 1918 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the massive wave of emergency municipal coinage that swept Germany as World War I guttered out and the imperial government's grip on metal supplies collapsed entirely. By mid-1918, copper and nickel had long been requisitioned for the war effort, leaving towns across Bavaria to commission their own small-change solutions from whatever base metals remained available.
The Funck reference places this among a documented series of Lauingen issues, suggesting the Stadtgemeinde struck multiple denominations rather than a single emergency piece — a practical response to the near-total disappearance of Reichsmark coinage from everyday commerce that autumn.