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50 Pfennig - Leer in Ostfriesland
| Issuer | City of Leer (Ostfriesland) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Diameter | 23.9 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the shield-shaped municipal coat of arms of Leer, depicting a crenellated city gate with two flanking towers, a rampant lion passant above the gateway arch, and a crouching animal figure within the arched gate opening. The arms are rendered in fine relief within a plain shield outline. The curved legend STADT LEER OSTFR. runs along the lower portion of the field, with a raised solid line forming the rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Leer's iron notgeld of 1918 was a direct consequence of the wartime metal requisitions that had stripped German municipal coffers of copper and zinc. By mid-1918, dozens of smaller Prussian towns were issuing iron emergency coinage independently, with approval processes through the Reich increasingly perfunctory as the western front collapsed. Leer, a modest port on the Leda river with a long history as a trading hub, had no particular claim to early or innovative notgeld issues — this piece is simply one of several hundred interchangeable municipal stopgaps produced that year.
The Funck reference distinguishes at least two die varieties for this type.