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50 Pfennigs - Regen Anton Wieninger
| Issuer | Anton Wieninger, Regen (Market town of Regen, Bavaria) |
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| Reference(s) | Men18#26516.3 , Hasselmann#790.3 |
| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a continuous outer pearl border following the eight-sided flan. A second inner pearl circle frames the central field, within which the large numeral '50' appears in raised relief, denoting the denomination in Pfennig. The circular legend 'ANTON WIENINGER REGEN' runs between the two pearl borders. Three small five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc of the inner pearl circle, serving as decorative separators. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 50 * * * |
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Anton Wieninger was a private merchant or innkeeper in the Bavarian market town of Regen who issued this notgeld token during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Municipal and commercial emergency coinage of this kind filled a vacuum left when official zinc and aluminum coins were hoarded or melted as metal values rose against the collapsing mark.
The Hasselmann catalog distinguishes multiple die varieties for this issue — the .3 suffix here indicating a specific variant within the series.