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10 Pfennig - Deggendorf
| Issuer | Deggendorf, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE DEGGENDORF 1917 |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSMÜNZE 10 GILTIG BIS 6 MONATE NACH FRIEDENSSCHLUSS |
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Deggendorf issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917, the same year the German war economy collapsed into acute metal shortages severe enough to strip copper and nickel from virtually all small-denomination coinage nationwide. Municipal authorities across Bavaria were effectively deputized to fill the gap. Zinc, already a wartime compromise material, was the practical ceiling — brass and bronze had long since been redirected to shell casings.
The Funck reference places this as a recognized local issue, not a fantasy piece, distinguishing it from the flood of purely speculative notgeld that followed after 1918.