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50 Pfennig - Wolfach
| Issuer | Amtsbezirk Wolfach (District Office of Wolfach) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The large bold numeral '50' dominates the central field, with the denomination PFENNIG inscribed on a curved ribbon banner below, flanked by decorative foliate scroll motifs on either side. The legend KRIEGSNOTGELD arcs along the upper periphery in bold raised Latin lettering. The date 1919 appears in the lower exergue. The overall design is clean and typographic, consistent with emergency coinage of the Weimar-era Notgeld issues. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Wolfach's 1919 emergency issue belongs to the first wave of German *Notgeld* produced in the administrative chaos following the armistice, when central coin supply collapsed and local authorities scrambled to keep small transactions moving. The Amtsbezirk — a mid-tier district administrative unit peculiar to Baden — issued on its own authority, a level of fiscal autonomy that would have been unthinkable a decade earlier. Zinc was the only practical option; copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort years before this piece was struck.