50 Pfennig - Lette Bernh. Cordes

Emittent	Bernh. Cordes (merchant/issuer), Lette bei Oelde, Bezirk Minden
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Gewicht	1.6 g
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Reversbeschreibung	The reverse presents a plain, unadorned field with the large bold numeral '50' prominently centered, occupying most of the available space. The design is contained within a beaded (pearl) border running close to the plain outer rim, with no additional legends, devices, or ornaments present. The stark simplicity of this face contrasts with the inscribed obverse, a common stylistic feature of privately issued German emergency coinage (Notgeld) from the inflationary period of the early 1920s.
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Zusätzliche Informationen	This is a piece of German Notgeld — emergency money issued privately during the acute coin shortage that followed World War I. Lette is a small village near Oelde in Westphalia, and Bernhard Cordes was almost certainly a local merchant or shopkeeper who issued these zinc tokens to make change when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation by 1918–1920. Zinc was the fallback material of necessity; copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort years earlier. The Mennicus reference numbers suggest two catalogued varieties exist for this type.