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50 Pfennig - Nürnberg N. Sch. F.
| Issuer | Nuremberg School Administration (Nürnberger Schulverwaltung) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Plain recessed field enclosed by a double-line border following the square format with rounded corners. The abbreviated issuer designation N. SCH. F. (Nürnberger Schul-Fabrik or Schulverwaltung) is boldly incused in the center of the field in large serif lettering. Above the legend, a symmetrical decorative flourish or arabesque ornament is impressed into the field, and a matching smaller ornamental device appears below the lettering, lending a modest decorative character to the otherwise austere utilitarian design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by the Nuremberg municipal school administration during the final year of the First World War, this zinc piece is a notgeld token — emergency currency produced when the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for shell casings, leaving municipalities and institutions scrambling to fill the void in small-denomination circulation. That a school authority rather than a bank or commercial enterprise served as the issuing body is unusual even by notgeld standards, likely reflecting the administration's need to manage canteen payments or student fee transactions when orthodox coinage had entirely vanished from daily use.