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50 Pfennig - Wangen im Allgäu
| Issuer | Wangen im Allgäu, City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border frames the coin's periphery, with the circular legend naming the issuing municipality and date arranged around a central pearl circle. Within the pearl circle, the municipal coat of arms of Wangen im Allgäu occupies the central field. The inscription reads above and around the arms, with a bullet separator flanking the date at the base of the legend. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE WANGEN IM ALLGÄU ● 1918 ● |
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Wangen im Allgäu issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1918 as the German imperial coinage system buckled under wartime metal requisitions. Copper and nickel had been diverted to the war effort years earlier, leaving municipalities across Württemberg and Bavaria to fill the gap with locally authorized emergency coinage. Zinc was the compromise material — plentiful, unglamorous, and deeply unpopular with the public for its tendency to corrode in pocket humidity.
The Funck reference places this among the more precisely documented Swabian municipal issues of the period.