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50 Pfennig - Weissenfels an der Saale
| Issuer | Magistrat der Stadt Weißenfels |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Obverse description | A beaded border frames the entire obverse, with the circular legend 'MAGISTRAT DER STADT WEISSENFELS' running along the periphery, punctuated by a cross ornament. At centre, the municipal coat of arms of Weißenfels is prominently displayed within a recessed circular field, depicting a fortified city gate with flanking towers and battlemented walls surmounted by a rampant lion on a shield above the gateway arch. The design is rendered in a plain, utilitarian style characteristic of World War I German Notgeld coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Weißenfels issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1918 as the Imperial German war economy stripped conventional coinage metals entirely from municipal circulation. Zinc was a deliberate wartime compromise — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for shell casings and industrial use since 1915, leaving hundreds of German towns scrambling for emergency issues on whatever base material remained available.
The Funck reference places this among documented Saxony-province municipal issues, a category notorious for short production runs and poor archival survival.