50 Pfennig - Menden Pattern

Menden's 1919 notgeld patterns in gold occupy a peculiar corner of German emergency coinage history. Most municipal notgeld of the postwar period was struck in zinc, iron, or porcelain — whatever was available and cheap. A .900 gold pattern from a small Westphalian town suggests either a presentation piece commissioned for civic officials or a speculative private strike intended to attract collector interest, almost certainly never circulated.

Funck 328.10 is sparsely documented, and authenticated examples are rarely offered publicly.