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10 Pfennig - Frankenhausen
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Frankenhausen (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Diameter | 20.1 mm |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl rim frames a circular legend reading STADTGEMEINDE ★ FRANKENHAUSEN KYFFH. ★, separated from the central device by an inner pearl circle. Within the inner circle, the municipal coat of arms of Frankenhausen is depicted as a detailed city gate with two flanking towers, battlemented walls, and a rampant lion passant in the arched gateway. The design is executed in a flat, utilitarian relief characteristic of German World War I notgeld coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1918: ND (1918) |
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Frankenhausen's iron notgeld of 1918 belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage forced by Germany's wartime metal requisitions — by mid-1917, copper, nickel, and zinc had been systematically stripped from the civilian economy for shell casings and military hardware, leaving hundreds of small towns to improvise local substitutes from whatever the Reich hadn't yet claimed. Iron was the unsatisfying answer. Frankenhausen, then under the administration of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, was one of dozens of minor principality towns that issued independently rather than waiting for centralized relief that never reliably came.
Iron corrodes, and surviving examples in collectible condition are genuinely harder to locate than the mintage figures might suggest.