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50 Pfennig - Rosenheim
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Rosenheim |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Weight | 2.7 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a beaded outer border following the octagonal perimeter of the flan, within which the circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE (small change substitute token) runs along the upper arc. An inner rope or beaded circle frames the central field, where the large denomination numeral 50 is prominently struck. Below the inner circle, flanked by two five-pointed stars, the date 1917 appears in the lower exergual area. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 50 ★ 1917 ★ |
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Rosenheim's zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, triggered when wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian minting almost entirely by 1916. Cities and towns were authorized to fill the gap themselves, producing locally valid small change that the Reichsbank had no capacity to supply. Zinc was the compromise material — abundant, workable, but prone to corrosion, which explains why survivors in clean condition are harder to locate than raw survival numbers suggest.