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50 Pfennig - Osterburg
| Issuer | Kreis Osterburg (District of Osterburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | A plain field centers the date 1918 above a central punched hole, with the circular legend KRIEGSNOTGELD DES KREISES OSTERBURG reading around the periphery. A finely beaded inner border runs concentrically within a raised outer rim, framing the entire design. The lettering is rendered in bold incuse capitals in the Latin script, characteristic of German wartime notgeld coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued in 1918 by the rural district of Osterburg in the Altmark region of Prussia, this zinc notgeld piece belongs to the vast wave of emergency coinage that flooded Germany as the imperial economy buckled under four years of war. By mid-1918, hoarding had stripped copper and nickel coins from everyday commerce almost entirely, forcing municipal and district authorities to self-issue tokens with no formal federal sanction. The multiple Funck varieties catalogued for this single issue suggest meaningful die or planchet variations across the production run — not unusual for district-level emergency pieces struck without the quality controls of a national mint.