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10 Pfennig - Crefeld
| Issuer | Stadt Krefeld (City of Krefeld) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Central field dominated by the crowned municipal coat of arms of Krefeld, depicting a horizontally divided shield filled with rows of raised dots arranged in a grid pattern across three sections, surmounted by a mural crown with florets. The circular legend STADT CREFELD runs along the periphery, with STADT at the left and CREFELD at the right. The variety letter B appears in the lower field beneath the shield, serving as a die identifier. The overall design is executed in a plain, functional style typical of German World War I notgeld coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Krefeld's 1918 municipal iron coinage was emergency money — Kriegsgeld issued because the Imperial government had drained copper and nickel from civilian circulation for war production. By mid-1918, hundreds of German cities and towns were independently commissioning their own notgeld from local foundries, creating a patchwork monetary system that the Reichsbank tolerated out of necessity rather than design. Krefeld, a textile manufacturing center on the Lower Rhine, had both the industrial infrastructure and the civic administration to move quickly.
The Funck 84.5A designation distinguishes this among known die variants for the issue.