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50 Pfennig - Marbach Friedrich Schiller
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Marbach am Neckar |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | AMTSKÖRPERSCHAFT MARBACH 50 PF. ★ 1918 ★ |
| Reverse description | A left-facing draped bust portrait of the German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller occupies the central field, rendered in fine relief with carefully detailed hair swept back and gathered in curls at the nape of the neck, consistent with late 18th-century fashionable dress. The bust is truncated at the shoulder and fills the coin's field without a surrounding border, giving the design an artistic, medallic quality. The identifying legend 'SCHILLER' is inscribed in the lower left field beside the bust truncation. |
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Marbach am Neckar issued this notgeld piece in 1918 under the pressures of wartime metal shortages that had stripped Germany's small municipalities of viable coinage. The town's choice to invoke Friedrich Schiller — born there in 1759 — was hardly accidental; local identity politics around Schiller had been a civic fixture since the Schiller centenary celebrations of 1859, and the Schillermuseum had opened in Marbach just eleven years before this coin was struck. Iron was the only practical option by late 1918, zinc and aluminium having already been heavily requisitioned.