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50 Pfennig - Schlettstadt
| Issuer | City of Schlettstadt (Sélestat) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | An outer beaded border follows the octagonal flan, enclosing a continuous circular legend reading STADT SCHLETTSTADT, flanked at the base by two five-pointed stars, with the date 1917 inscribed below. Within the inner beaded circle, the crowned lion passant rampant of the Schlettstadt municipal arms is depicted in bold relief at center field, facing right with one forepaw raised, surmounted by a heraldic crown. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Schlettstadt — the Alsatian city known today as Sélestat — issued this zinc notgeld in 1917 under German administration, a consequence of wartime metal shortages that had stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage entirely. Zinc was the reluctant substitute across dozens of German municipal emergency issues that year. The city had been part of the German Empire since the Franco-Prussian War cession of 1871 and would revert to France less than two years after this piece was struck.
The Funck 474.3A designation places it within a documented die variety sequence, suggesting multiple strikes from differing working dies during the issue run.