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50 Pfennig - Menden
| Issuer | Stadt Menden (City of Menden) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large bold numeral 50, denoting the denomination, dominates the central field in prominent raised figures. The legend KRIEGSGELD arcs across the upper periphery, with the date 1919 inscribed to the right along the inner border. The word PFENNIG appears along the lower periphery, flanked on each side by a small cross ornament. A beaded border frames the entire reverse design. |
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Menden's 1919 iron notgeld issue belongs to the wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany in the immediate aftermath of the November Armistice, when the central government's coin supply collapsed and individual cities, towns, and even private firms were left to provision their own small change. Iron was the default fallback — copper and nickel had been commandeered for the war effort years earlier and stocks remained depleted. Funck 328.9 places this squarely within the documented Westphalian municipal series.