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50 Pfennig - Schmalkalden
| Issuer | Vereinsbank Schmalkalden |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain field at centre displaying the large bold numeral '50' as the denomination. A raised circular legend surrounds the central numeral, reading 'NUR GÜLTIG BIS ENDE 1918' in the upper arc and '✶ PFENNIGE ✶' in the lower arc, with five-pointed stars as decorative separators, indicating the coin's validity was limited to the end of 1918. The design is framed by a continuous beaded or pearl rim along the inner border. |
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Issued by a regional cooperative bank rather than a municipal authority, this Schmalkalden piece belongs to the vast wave of Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes — that flooded Germany after the outbreak of war in 1914 stripped coinage metals from circulation. Zinc was the material of necessity: copper and nickel had been requisitioned for munitions. Vereinsbank Schmalkalden, a modest Thuringian institution, effectively deputized itself as a monetary authority in the absence of any functioning small-change supply from Berlin.
The Funck catalogue remains the authoritative reference for these emergency issues; the .1 suffix indicates the primary die variety.