50 Pfennig - Nürnberg N. Sch. F.

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.