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10 Pfennig - Frankenthal
| Issuer | Frankenthal (Palatinate), City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded and dashed border, a plain inner circle frames the denomination numeral '10' prominently displayed in the center of the field, with the city name and coin designation arranged as a circular legend reading 'Stadt Frankenthal 10 ✠ Kriegsgeld ✠' in Fraktur blackletter script. The cross ornaments serve as decorative separators within the legend. The overall design is austere and functional, consistent with wartime emergency Notgeld coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin (Fraktur blackletter) |
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Frankenthal issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as the Imperial German war economy stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation for shell casings and industrial use. Zinc was the fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to corrosion and difficult to distinguish by touch. Hundreds of German municipalities faced the same problem simultaneously, which is precisely why catalog references for Rhineland Palatinate notgeld run into the thousands.