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10 Pfennig - Bensheim
| Issuer | City of Bensheim |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a fully armored knight standing facing, holding a long spear or lance in his right hand and a heraldic shield bearing the letter 'B' in his left hand; a vanquished dragon appears prostrate at the knight's feet. The circular legend 'STADT BENSHEIM' runs along the upper periphery within a beaded border, with the date '1917' inscribed at the base flanked by small stars. Two distinct die varieties exist: F#34.3a, in which the spear enters the dragon, and F#34.3b, in which the spear reaches only to the knight's foot. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bensheim issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as wartime metal requisitions stripped German municipalities of their copper and nickel supplies. The Reich had been systematically recalling higher-value coinage metals since 1915, leaving local authorities to fill the small-change vacuum themselves. Zinc was the compromise material — abundant, workable, but corroding readily in circulation, which accounts for the difficulty in finding survivors with clean surfaces.