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50 Pfennig - Wasseralfingen
| Issuer | Wasseralfingen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing the large bold numeral '50' prominently centered, with the abbreviation 'PF.' inscribed in smaller lettering directly below in the lower central field. The design is austere and utilitarian, typical of World War I German municipal notgeld coinage. A milled border runs along all eight sides of the octagonal flan. |
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Wasseralfingen's 1917 iron notgeld was a direct product of wartime metal requisitioning — by mid-war, the German military had absorbed brass, nickel, and copper so thoroughly that municipalities were left to improvise with whatever industrial scrap remained available. Wasseralfingen was well-positioned to do exactly that: the town hosted the Königliche Württembergische Hüttenwerke, a royal ironworks operation that had been casting iron since the early nineteenth century. The same facility supplying materiel to the war effort was, in effect, the logical source for emergency coinage struck in the same material.