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50 Pfennigs - Braunlage F.W. Fuchs
| Issuer | F.W. Fuchs, Braunlage |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | A pearl border frames the entire design. At center, a fox is depicted in profile, standing facing right on a flat ground line, rendered in low relief. The circular legend surrounds the central motif, with the issuer's name reading 'F.W. FUCHS' along the upper arc and 'BRAUNLAGE I/H.' along the lower arc, separated by small six-pointed star ornaments at either side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Braunlage, a small resort town in the Harz mountains, issued a wave of privately produced emergency coinage during the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1921. F.W. Fuchs was almost certainly a local merchant or innkeeper whose customers had no practical way to make change — Reichsbank coin had largely vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted. Zinc was the available material, not a preference.
The Hasselmann catalog documents multiple Fuchs types, suggesting this was not a one-off desperation piece but a deliberately issued series.