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50 Pfennig - Sangerhausen
| Issuer | City of Sangerhausen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Weight | 3.7 g |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT SANGERHAUSEN ✿ 1917 ✿ |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 50 ★ ★ ★ |
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Sangerhausen's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, produced after the Imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production, leaving municipalities with no viable path to small-change supply except self-issue. Zinc was the compromise material — available, cheap, and deeply unpopular in circulation due to its tendency to corrode and pit in pocket moisture.
Sangerhausen, a small Mansfeld copper-district town with a long metallurgical history, would have felt the metal shortage acutely.