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10 Pfennig - Forbach
| Issuer | Forbach, City of |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the municipal arms of Forbach: a rampant lion to the left beneath a mural crown with three towers, rendered in low relief against a plain field. The heraldic device occupies the majority of the octagonal flan. The circumferential legend FORBACH i. LOTHRINGEN arcs across the upper portion of the coin, reading from lower left to upper right. A continuous border of raised beads frames the entire design along the inner edge of the octagonal planchet. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Forbach, now Forbach in the Moselle department of France, was occupied by German forces and administered as part of the Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen from 1871 onward. Like dozens of small Alsace-Lorraine municipalities during the First World War, the city issued zinc notgeld when copper and nickel were requisitioned for war production and Reichsbank coins vanished from circulation almost overnight. The multiple concordant catalog references — Funck, Menzel, and Marchand — suggest this piece was actively collected across both French and German numismatic traditions, reflecting the town's perpetually contested identity.