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50 Pfennig - Tailfingen
| Issuer | Gemeinde Tailfingen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A pearl border frames the entire reverse field. The large denomination numeral '50' is prominently centered in the field in bold raised figures. The curved legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZ' arcs along the upper periphery inside the pearl border, indicating this token serves as small change substitute. Three six-pointed stars are arranged in a horizontal row along the lower portion of the field beneath the numeral. |
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Tailfingen was a small Swabian textile town, and this piece belongs to the vast wave of German municipal notgeld struck when wartime metal requisitions stripped circulation of copper and nickel coinage almost entirely. Iron was the compromise — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public due to its tendency to rust in pocket wear. Many iron notgeld issues from 1918 survive in poor condition for exactly that reason, corroded out of collectability within years of issue.