50 Pfennig - Wolfach

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.