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50 Pfennigs - Hauzenberg
| Issuer | Darlehenskassenverein Hauzenberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 50 dominates the central field in bold raised relief, serving as the principal denomination indicator. Surrounding the numeral, the circular legend KRIEGSMUNZE 50 PFENNIG is separated by cross pattee ornaments, identifying this piece as a wartime emergency coin. A beaded inner border and an outer beaded rim frame the design, consistent with the austere utilitarian aesthetic typical of German Kriegsmünzen struck in zinc during World War I. |
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| Edge | Serrated |
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Issued by the Darlehenskassenverein — a cooperative lending association — in Hauzenberg, a small town in Lower Bavaria near the Austrian border. Emergency coinage of this kind flooded Germany from 1916 onward as the Imperial government's wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel stripped municipal and commercial issuers of any practical alternative. Zinc, difficult to strike cleanly and prone to corrosion, was the metal of last resort.
The Funck reference places this among hundreds of catalogued Bavarian Notgeld issues, most struck in tiny quantities for purely local circulation. Few survived in decent condition — zinc degrades aggressively in humid storage.