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50 Pfennig - Neuenbürg
| Issuer | Oberamt Bezirk Neuenbürg (Württemberg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Neuenbürg's 50 Pfennig piece belongs to the vast wave of Kriegsnotgeld — emergency coinage — that flooded German municipal and district circulation from 1917 onward as the Imperial government's metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from the monetary system entirely. Iron was the default solution for smaller authorities, though it corroded badly in circulation, which explains why undamaged survivors are rarer than mintage figures might suggest. The Oberamt Bezirk was a mid-level administrative unit in Württemberg, with no mint of its own; production was contracted out.