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10 Pfennig - Boppard
| Issuer | Stadt Boppard (City of Boppard) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the municipal arms of Boppard: a heraldic eagle with wings displayed set upon a pointed shield, surmounted by a decorative crown or crest element at the top. The shield and eagle occupy nearly the full diameter of the coin, rendered in high relief. A circular legend borders the design, reading STADT BOPPARD A. RHEIN, flanked by cross ornaments, with the date 1919 inscribed at the base of the coin within the border. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD 10 PFG |
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Boppard's 1919 iron notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded the Rhineland as the German imperial monetary system collapsed following the armistice. The city, sitting on the Rhine between Koblenz and Bingen, had no special claim to early issuance — dozens of towns its size did the same. Iron was the only practical option; copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort years earlier, and the central government had no capacity to supply smaller denominations to municipalities scrambling to make change.