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10 Pfennig - Berching
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Berching (City Treasury of Berching) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse sharing the same general layout as the obverse, with a pearl border tracing the eight-sided periphery and a beaded inner circle enclosing the large numeral '10' centered in the field. The surrounding legend reads 'KLEINGELDERSATZ' at the top and 'KRIEGSJAHR 1917' at the bottom, with star ornaments as separators, identifying this token as small-change substitute currency issued during the war year 1917. |
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Berching's 10 Pfennig notgeld was issued by the city treasury in 1917, the point at which Germany's wartime metal requisitions had stripped conventional coinage from everyday circulation almost entirely. Zinc was the fallback for dozens of municipalities that year — brass, copper, and nickel were absorbed by the munitions industry, leaving local authorities to improvise with whatever the Reich hadn't yet claimed. Berching, a small walled town in the Bavarian Altmühl valley with a population well under five thousand at the time, had neither the resources nor the minting infrastructure of larger cities, making its notgeld issues correspondingly small in quantity and survival rate.