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10 Pfennig - Frankenthal
| Issuer | Frankenthal (Palatinate), City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Obverse description | The city name STADT FRANKENTHAL arcs along the upper periphery of the field, reading from lower left to lower right. The large denomination numeral '10' occupies the centre of the field in bold raised lettering. The date '1919' is inscribed along the lower rim, centred below the numeral. The design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with the emergency coinage aesthetic of the German Notgeld period. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT FRANKENTHAL 10 1919 |
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Frankenthal issued this iron notgeld piece in 1919 as the post-armistice economic collapse left Germany's small municipalities without adequate Reichsmünze coinage for everyday transactions. The city, situated in the Rhine-Palatinate and under considerable political strain as French occupation forces settled into the left bank of the Rhine under the terms of Versailles, needed local scrip simply to keep markets functioning. Iron was the material of necessity — copper and nickel remained scarce after years of wartime requisition.