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10 Pfennig - Bonn-Siegkreis
| Issuer | Bonn and Sieg, Districts of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#52.4, Men05#3224.2, Men18#4139.2 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1918 |
| Edge | Plain |
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Issued jointly by the districts of Bonn and Sieg in 1918, this iron notgeld piece is a direct product of the wartime metal shortages that stripped Germany's subsidiary coinage from circulation. By mid-war, copper, nickel, and zinc had been commandeered for munitions production, forcing municipalities to fill the vacuum with locally authorized emergency issues. The Bonn-Siegkreis pieces were among hundreds of such district-level issues, each with its own authorization and distribution limits — rarely travelling far beyond the issuing region, which partly explains why survivors turn up in limited geographic spread today.