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50 Pfennigs - Crailsheim Wilh. Habermeier
| Issuer | Wilh. Habermeier, Crailsheim |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a continuous pearl border following the outline of all eight sides. An inner pearl circle frames the central field, within which the large numeral '50' appears in bold relief. The issuer's legend 'WILH. HABERMEIER' arcs across the upper portion of the coin between the outer pearl border and the inner pearl circle, while 'CRAILSHEIM' curves along the lower arc in the same interstitial space. Two small star ornaments punctuate the legend at left and right on the lower arc. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Crailsheim notgeld of this type was issued by private firms during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, as wartime metal requisitioning stripped zinc, nickel, and copper from civilian currency production. Wilh. Habermeier — almost certainly a local merchant or manufacturing concern — issued these pieces as emergency substitute currency redeemable within a limited commercial radius, a practice the Reich initially tolerated before tightening controls on private notgeld issuers toward the end of the war.