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50 Pfennig - Maulbronn
| Issuer | District of Maulbronn |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a bold, large numeral '50' dominating the upper central field in plain, unadorned raised lettering against a flat ground. Below the numeral, the denomination legend PFENNIG is inscribed in a single horizontal line in capital letters. The date 1918 appears in the lower portion of the field, centered beneath the denomination. The design is stark and utilitarian, reflecting the emergency wartime nature of this notgeld issue, with no additional ornamental devices. |
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| Mintage | 1918 - F#325.3 - 22,454 1918 - F#325.3a) Planchet is 1.0 mm thick - 1918 - F#325.3b) Planchet is 1.5 mm thick - |
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Maulbronn's iron notgeld of 1918 belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage issued across Germany as wartime metal requisitioning stripped circulation of copper and nickel. Iron was the stopgap — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it rusted in the pocket. The District of Maulbronn, a small administrative unit in Württemberg best known for its remarkably intact Cistercian monastery, had no particular monetary infrastructure of its own; issuing local coinage was a bureaucratic necessity thrust upon it by the collapse of the national supply chain.
The Funck 325.3 designation indicates a specific die variant within the Maulbronn iron series.