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10 Pfennig - Giessen
| Issuer | City of Giessen |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | A continuous pearl border defines the outer rim of the reverse, within which the circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE runs along the upper periphery. An inner beaded circle encloses the large numeral 10, denoting the denomination, prominently displayed in the central field. Three small six-pointed stars are evenly spaced in the lower margin between the outer pearl rim and the inner beaded circle. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Giessen's 1918 iron notgeld issues were a direct product of the wartime metal requisitions that stripped Germany's municipal reserves of copper and zinc for shell casings and industrial war production. Cities across the Reich were authorized — and in many cases compelled — to issue their own emergency coinage, with iron as the only sanctioned substitute material. The Funck reference number places this firmly within the documented notgeld corpus, though iron pieces from this period survived circulation poorly, corroding rapidly in pocket and purse.