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50 Pfennig - Pappenheim
| Issuer | City of Pappenheim |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large bold numeral '50' dominates the central field, with the word 'PFENNIG' arranged in a straight line beneath it. The circular legend 'NOTGELD MARKE' arcs around the upper portion of the field, separated from the denomination area by two cross-pattee stops. The whole design is enclosed within a raised pearl border running along the inner rim. |
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Pappenheim's zinc notgeld coinage emerged from the same municipal desperation that drove hundreds of German towns to strike their own emergency issues between 1917 and 1921, as the imperial and later republican central authorities failed to supply adequate small change. Zinc was the material of necessity — copper and nickel were war materiel first, coinage second. The Funck reference places this firmly within the documented series, but locally issued zinc pieces from small Bavarian municipalities saw heavy pocket circulation and corrode aggressively, making clean survivors genuinely difficult to source.