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50 Pfennig - Mengen
| Issuer | Mengen, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#329.3, Men05#16584.3, Men18#20818.3 |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT MENGEN |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mengen's iron notgeld of 1918 belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, issued as the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from circulation entirely. Iron was the compromise — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who correctly anticipated it would corrode in pocket and purse. Mengen, a small Swabian market town with no particular monetary infrastructure, was nonetheless forced to act as its own issuing authority simply to keep local commerce moving in the final months of the war.