10 Pfennig - Crefeld

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.