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50 Pfennig - Mülheim an der Ruhr
| Issuer | Mülheim an der Ruhr, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the quartered municipal coat of arms of Mülheim an der Ruhr, featuring heraldic devices within a shield. The legend STADT appears above the arms and MÜLHEIM / A.D.RUHR below, divided across two lines, all rendered in bold raised lettering. The design occupies the full face of the square flan with rounded corners, with no additional ornamental border beyond the edge of the planchet. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 50 dominates the central field as the principal denomination indicator, rendered in bold raised figures. Above, the legend KRIEGSGELD and the date 1918 are inscribed in two lines across the upper portion of the flan. The word PFENNIG appears in the lower field beneath the numeral, completing the denomination inscription. The composition is plain and functional, consistent with wartime emergency coinage (Notgeld) production. |
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Mülheim an der Ruhr issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as wartime metal requisitioning had stripped Germany's mints of copper and nickel. Iron was a poor substitute — prone to corrosion, difficult to strike cleanly, and widely resented by the public — but it was what the war economy permitted. Most surviving examples show at least surface rust, making problem-free specimens harder to locate than mintage figures alone would suggest.