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50 Pfennig - Saalfeld Ostpreußen
| Issuer | City of Saalfeld (East Prussia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the municipal arms of Saalfeld, depicting a radiate female figure seated within a boat or cradle-shaped vessel, flanked by stylized foliate or flame-like branches. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The circular legend reads STADT ★ SAALFELD O/PR. ★ in raised Latin capital letters, with two six-pointed stars as separators, all contained within an outer dentilated border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saalfeld in East Prussia — not to be confused with the Thuringian town of the same name — issued this Notgeld piece in the autumn of 1918 as the German imperial monetary system buckled under wartime metal shortages. Iron had replaced copper and nickel in municipal emergency coinage by this stage, with most German cities and towns issuing their own stopgap currency under authorization from the Reich. The Funck catalogue documents several die variants for this type, with the .3 suffix indicating a distinct reverse or edge characteristic within the series.