10 Pfennig - Arnsberg

Arnsberg's 1917 zinc notgeld belongs to the massive wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany after the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production. Zinc was the fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to corrosion and difficult to distinguish by touch in low light. Arnsberg, a mid-sized Westphalian administrative center, was among hundreds of municipalities forced to shoulder currency issuance that had effectively been abandoned by the central authorities.

The Funck 19.2 designation indicates this is a recognized die variant within the Arnsberg series — distinct enough from 19.1 to warrant separate cataloging.