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10 Pfennig - Crailsheim
| Issuer | City of Crailsheim |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Crailsheim's 1920 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the flood of emergency municipal coinage that swept German towns following the First World War, when the Imperial monetary system had collapsed and the central government could not reliably supply small-denomination coinage to meet everyday commercial needs. Hundreds of municipalities struck their own pieces, most briefly and in limited quantities, producing a fragmented circulating currency that was strictly local in acceptance.
The Funck reference places this among the documented Württemberg issues, a cataloging distinction that matters for collectors trying to separate the genuine circulating pieces from the purely speculative issues produced for the collector market — a problem that plagued notgeld series almost from the start.