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50 Pfennig - Scheinfeld
| Issuer | Scheinfeld, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Weight | 3.1 g |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
| Edge | Plain |
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Scheinfeld was a small Franconian market town with a population barely exceeding a thousand when it issued this iron notgeld piece during the postwar small-change crisis of 1921. The chronic shortage of official coinage following Germany's defeat drove hundreds of municipalities — including minor administrative centers like Scheinfeld — to authorize their own emergency currency, iron being the material of necessity after copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort.