Menden 1920 50 pfennig notgeld

formerly in the Wildman Collection

formerly in the Wildman Collection

In 1920, the town of Menden in Westphalia issued this fifty pfennig notgeld featuring a skeleton of a cave bear stalking out of a cave. This design was also issued in aluminum and silver but those are rare.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: steel, 22.6 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: Funck 328.12.

Source:

• Funck, Walter, Die Notmunzen der deutschen Städte, Gemeinden, Kreise, Länder, etc.; Band 1: Standardkatalog der amtlichen Ausgaben 1916-1921, Regenstauf, Germany: H. Geitl Verlag, 2000.

Link to:

• Mosbach 1920 25 pfennig notgeld
• Augsburg 1920 50 pfennig notgeld
• Bonn 1920 50 pfennig notgeld
• Bremen 1920 10 pfennig notgeld
• Konitz (1920) 2 pfennig notgeld
• Lennep 1920 5 pfennig notgeld
• Weissenfels 1920 10 pfennig notgeld
• Coins and currency dated 1920
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