50 Pfennig - Obernzell

Obernzell, a small market town on the Danube in Lower Bavaria, issued iron notgeld during the acute coin shortages of World War I, when imperial authorities were systematically withdrawing silver and copper from circulation for war materiel. Municipal and commercial bodies across Germany stepped into the gap with locally issued emergency pieces, and iron — abundant as a byproduct of wartime industrial production — became the default substitute metal for these small-denomination stopgaps.

The Funck 393.2 designation places this as a documented variety, distinguished from the .1 within the cataloguing system.