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50 Pfennig - Salzungen
| Issuer | Magistrat Salzungen |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a robed bishop or saint standing facing, wearing a mitre and full ecclesiastical vestments, holding a leafy branch or palm frond in his raised left hand and a book or reliquary in his right hand. The figure stands on a short ground line. A beaded inner border frames the central device, with the circular legend MAGISTRAT SALZUNGEN reading around the upper periphery and the date 1918 positioned along the lower right. The outer rim is adorned with a continuous beaded border. |
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| Obverse lettering | MAGISTRAT SALZUNGEN 1918 |
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Salzungen's iron notgeld of 1918 belongs to the flood of emergency municipal coinage that swept German towns during the final year of the war, when copper and nickel had long since been requisitioned for shell casings and military hardware. The Magistrat issued these pieces to address a genuine small-change crisis — Reichsbank coins had effectively vanished from everyday commerce, hoarded or melted as fast as they appeared.
Iron was the default of last resort, prone to rust and unpopular with the public, which is why high-grade survivors are rarer than their original mintages might suggest.