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50 Pfennig - Wurzbach in Thüringen
| Issuer | Municipality of Wurzbach (Reuss) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field features a standing stork in profile facing left, depicted in fine relief with detailed plumage, perched on a flat base. The date 1919 is split to either side of the bird, with '19' appearing on each flank. A circular raised border separates the central motif from the outer legend, which reads 'GEMEINDE WURZBACH THÜR.' arranged along the periphery in bold Latin capitals. The entire design is enclosed by a beaded border running along the coin's rim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wurzbach was a small industrial town in the Reuss principality, a patchwork of absurdly fragmented German microstates that had only been absorbed into Thuringia following the November Revolution of 1918. This notgeld issue appeared almost immediately after that dissolution — the municipal authority issuing emergency iron coinage precisely because the new Weimar government had not yet established reliable small-denomination circulation. Iron, a wartime substitute material still in supply, was the practical choice for a town with neither the weight of a major city nor patience for bureaucratic delay.