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10 Pfennig - Boppard
| Issuer | Boppard, City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Diameter | 20.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the municipal arms of Boppard: a heraldic shield bearing a displayed eagle with wings spread and talons prominent, surmounted by a decorative crown or architectural cornice element at the shield's chief. The shield occupies the majority of the field. A circular legend surrounds the device along the rim, reading STADT BOPPARD A. RHEIN, with the date 1919 appearing at the base, flanked by ornamental cross stops. The overall style is characteristic of German Notgeld municipal heraldic design of the early Weimar period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Boppard issued this zinc notgeld in 1919 as the post-war German economy buckled under Allied reparations demands and chronic small-change shortages — conditions that pushed hundreds of municipalities to strike their own emergency coinage. The Rhine town had Roman origins and a long history of independent civic identity, but by 1919 it was simply trying to keep local commerce functional.
The Funck reference places this as variety 53.2, suggesting at least two documented die or format variants exist for this type.