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50 Pfennig - Marktleuthen
| Issuer | Marktleuthen, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | MARKTGEMEINDE 1917 MARKTLEUTHEN |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Marktleuthen is a small market town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and this piece belongs to the enormous wave of municipal notgeld issued across Germany from 1916 onward as the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions drained zinc, copper, and nickel from everyday circulation. Towns issued their own emergency coinage not by legal authority but by practical necessity — the central mint simply could not keep pace with demand while simultaneously supplying the war machine. The Funck reference places this among the documented Bavarian municipal issues, a category where survival rates vary sharply by town size.