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50 Pfennig - Mühlhausen in Thüringen
| Issuer | City of Mühlhausen in Thüringen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a matching dentilated outer border and an inner beaded circle. The central device depicts a stylised hourglass or similar geometric ornamental motif in low relief set within the inner circle. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' runs around the inner beaded ring, denoting the piece as a small-change substitute token. The date '1917' appears in the lower field outside the inner ring, flanked by two small star separators. |
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Mühlhausen's 1917 zinc notgeld issue came out of the same wartime metal emergency that stripped German municipal authorities of copper and nickel almost overnight. The Imperial government's requisitioning of base metals for shell casings and industrial war production left cities scrambling to maintain small-change liquidity, and hundreds of municipalities issued their own emergency coinage. Zinc was the compromise — plentiful, workable, but prone to corrosion, which explains why undamaged survivors from this period are harder to find than mintage figures alone would suggest.