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50 Pfennig - Schwäbisch Hall
| Issuer | City of Schwäbisch Hall |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#186.3, Men05#10238.3, Men18#12736.3 |
| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner border, the heraldic right hand of Schwäbisch Hall — an upright open hand with fingers extended, bearing a small cross motif at the palm — occupies the central field. This emblem derives from the city's traditional coat of arms. A circular legend runs around the periphery reading KGL.WÜRTT.OBERAMTSSTADT followed by a pellet stop, then HALL followed by a pellet stop, all in raised Latin capitals. The octagonal flan is framed by a fine milled border along its outer edge. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Schwäbisch Hall had been synonymous with coinage since the medieval Heller — a coin so ubiquitous across the Holy Roman Empire that its name became a unit of account. By 1917, the city was issuing emergency zinc pieces not out of any monetary tradition but because the German war economy had consumed copper, nickel, and iron for munitions, leaving municipalities to plug the gap in small change with whatever base metal remained available.
The Funck reference places this among the documented Notgeld issues catalogued by city rather than state authority — a reflection of how fractured Germany's emergency coinage administration became in the middle war years.