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10 Pfennig - Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof
| Issuer | Frankfurt am Main Hauptbahnhof (Main Railway Station) |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the large bold numeral 10 centrally positioned in the plain field, indicating the denomination of ten Pfennig. The numeral is rendered in a simple, utilitarian style consistent with wartime emergency coinage. A beaded circle border frames the entire design along the inner rim, mirroring the treatment of the obverse. |
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Frankfurt's main station issued zinc transportation tokens during the First World War period, when the German empire's copper and nickel reserves were diverted to military production and municipal transit authorities scrambled to maintain small-change liquidity. Zinc was the stopgap material of necessity across dozens of German cities during this period, and Frankfurt's Hauptbahnhof tokens represent that broader emergency coinage phenomenon at the local transit level.