50 Pfennig - Mühlheim am Main

This is Kriegsgeld — emergency municipal coinage issued because the imperial government had requisitioned copper and nickel for arms production, leaving local authorities to fill the small-denomination gap with whatever metals remained available. Zinc was the default answer for dozens of German towns in 1917, the war's most economically destructive year. Mühlheim am Main, a small Main River community that would not be absorbed into Frankfurt until 1928, issued its own notgeld rather than leave residents without workable small change.

The Funck 343.2A designation indicates a recognized die variety within the series.