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50 Pfennig - Marienwerder
| Issuer | Marienwerder (West Prussia), City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Weight | 3.8 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1918 - F#318.3 - 51,099 1918 - F#318.3a) Obverse: stars on one tip, left star tip points to foot of M of MARIENWERDER - 1918 - F#318.3b) Obverse: stars on two tip, left star tip points to middle of M of MARIENWERDER - |
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Marienwerder — today Kwidzyn in northern Poland — issued this notgeld piece in 1918 as the German imperial economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions. By that point, copper and nickel had been systematically stripped from civilian coinage for years, and municipalities across the Reich were filling the gap with locally authorized iron and zinc pieces. Iron was itself a compromise material; it corrodes readily and strikes poorly, which is why survivors in clean condition are consistently harder to find than the original mintages suggest.