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50 Pfennig - Lauter Sparkasse
| Issuer | Sparkasse Lauter |
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| Diameter | 24.1 mm |
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| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border frames the otherwise plain field. The denomination 50 Pfg. is inscribed in large, prominent characters positioned in the upper-left quadrant of the field, rendered in a mixed serif and script typeface characteristic of German notgeld issues of the early 1920s. The remainder of the field is entirely blank, with no additional devices or legends present. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by a local savings bank (Sparkasse) in Lauter, Saxony, this zinc notgeld piece belongs to the vast wave of emergency coinage that flooded Germany between 1916 and the early 1920s as federal authorities failed to maintain adequate small-denomination coin supplies. Hundreds of municipalities, utilities, and private institutions produced their own stopgap currency, with zinc becoming the dominant material once wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation.
Funck's cataloguing of German notgeld coinage remains the standard reference for attributing these local issues, and the Men18 cross-reference confirms this as a recognized type rather than a contemporary counterfeit or fantasy piece.