Halberstadt notgeld coinage was authorized at the district level during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period, when copper and nickel were still being rationed under postwar Allied material controls. Iron was the pragmatic substitute — cheap, available, and universally despised by the public for the rust it left on fingers and in pockets.
Halberstadt notgeld coinage was authorized at the district level during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period, when copper and nickel were still being rationed under postwar Allied material controls. Iron was the pragmatic substitute — cheap, available, and universally despised by the public for the rust it left on fingers and in pockets.