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50 Pfennig - Wyhlen Baden
| Issuer | Gemeinde Wyhlen (Baden) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Pearl beaded rim encircling the entire face. A raised solid ring divides the coin into an outer legend band and a central field. Within the inner circle, the municipal coat of arms of Wyhlen is depicted centrally, featuring a rampant bear on a quartered shield. The circular legend in the outer annulus reads GEMEINDE at the top and WYHLEN at the bottom, separated by six-pointed star stops at the left and right. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Wyhlen is a small Rhine-border community in Baden, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it issued its own Kleingeldersatz — emergency small change — as wartime metal requisitions and hoarding stripped copper and nickel coinage from everyday circulation. Zinc, being less strategically critical than those metals, became the default material for municipal issues of this type. The Funck cataloguing system documents thousands of such pieces; that this one carries a distinct variety designation (3B) suggests measurable die or planchet differences from at least two earlier states of the same issue.