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50 Pfennig - Steinwiesen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Steinwiesen (Municipality of Steinwiesen) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Diameter | 23.5 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Steinwiesen is a small village in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and this zinc piece belongs to the vast wave of German municipal notgeld issued between 1919 and 1922 when chronic small-change shortages — caused first by wartime metal hoarding, then by postwar monetary instability — forced local governments to produce their own emergency coinage. Thousands of municipalities did the same, but zinc was an unusual choice; most comparable issues used iron or aluminum. The Funck reference places this squarely within the catalogued series, suggesting production was organized rather than improvised.