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50 Pfennigs - Neumarkt Kunstmühle Carl Zinn
| Issuer | Kunstmühle Carl Zinn, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc token with a circular legend reading KUNSTMÜHLE in the upper arc and NEUMARKT in the lower arc, flanked by two small six-pointed star ornaments at either side. The central field bears the issuer's name in two lines: CARL above ZINN, in bold raised lettering. Below the central text, a small decorative motif consisting of two opposing arrowhead-like devices flanking a central pellet serves as a divider. The overall design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with German Notgeld production of the early 1920s. |
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| Obverse lettering | KUNSTMÜHLE CARL ZINN NEUMARKT |
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Issued by a private flour mill in the Upper Palatinate during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, this zinc notgeld token is one of hundreds of emergency issues produced by commercial enterprises when official coinage effectively vanished from circulation. The Kunstmühle Carl Zinn — a mill with industrial-scale grain processing operations — issued these pieces not as collectibles but as functional wage and transaction tokens within its local economic sphere.
Zinc was the material of necessity here, not preference. By the time most Bavarian notgeld was being struck, copper and nickel were still considered strategic materials.