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50 Pfennig - Münsingen
| Issuer | Oberamt Münsingen |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | OBERAMT MÜNSINGEN 50 PFENNIG ★ NOTGELD ★ |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Oberamt Münsingen issued this notgeld piece during the acute metal and currency shortage that followed Germany's defeat in World War I, when municipal and district authorities across Württemberg were forced to produce their own emergency coinage simply to keep local commerce functioning. The Oberamt — an administrative district unit peculiar to Württemberg — had the legal standing to authorize such issues, though the Reichsbank viewed the proliferation of local iron pieces with considerable unease.
Iron was the fallback material precisely because nickel and copper had been consumed by the war economy and remained scarce into 1920.