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10 Pfennig - Beilngries
| Issuer | Stadt Beilngries (City of Beilngries) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 20.7 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1917 - - 5,000 |
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Beilngries is a small market town in the Altmühl valley of Bavaria, and this zinc piece is a product of the municipal notgeld wave that swept German cities and towns after the imperial government's wartime hoarding ordinances drained silver and copper coinage from circulation. By 1917, the shortage was acute enough that even minor municipalities like Beilngries were authorized to issue their own emergency substitute currency. Zinc was the compromise metal — abundant, cheap, easy to stamp, and deeply unpopular with the public for its tendency to corrode and crack at the edges.