10 Pfennig - Giessen

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.