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50 Pfennig - Nürnberg N. Sch. F.
| Issuer | Nuremberg School Administration (Nürnberger Schulverwaltung) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain recessed field enclosed by a double-line border following the square format with rounded corners. The field bears a four-line inscription in incused capital letters conveying the token's redemption value and purpose: GÜLTIG / FÜR 50 / 1x / ESSEN, indicating validity for one meal at a value of 50 Pfennig. The numeral 50 appears to the right of FÜR in a slightly smaller font. The stark, utilitarian layout is characteristic of wartime emergency issue canteen or food-ration tokens produced under austere manufacturing conditions. |
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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.