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10 Pfennig - Arzberg
| Issuer | Arzberg, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | A beaded border encircles the entire design. The large numeral '10', denoting the denomination in Pfennig, is prominently struck in the center of the field. The circular legend KRIEGS - NOTMÜNZE arcs across the upper and lateral periphery, while the date 1917 appears along the lower periphery, flanked on each side by a five-pointed star serving as a stop mark. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Arzberg's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal emergency coinage, driven by the wartime hoarding of copper and nickel that stripped small denominations from everyday commerce almost entirely. The Imperial government had authorized municipalities to fill the gap themselves, which produced a chaotic patchwork of local issues varying wildly in quality and reliability. Arzberg, a Bavarian porcelain-manufacturing town, was among hundreds of minor cities striking their own coin-like substitutes that year.
The Funck and Menzel reference numbers confirm at least two recognized varieties of this type — the .2 suffix indicating this is the secondary variant.