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10 Pfennig - Gotha
| Issuer | City of Gotha (Saxe-Coburg and Gotha) |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border frames a circular legend reading STADT GOTHA above and KLEINGELDERSATZ below, each separated by a six-pointed star ornament. An inner pearl circle encloses the large numeral 10 in the center of the field, serving as the denomination. The design is simple and utilitarian, consistent with the emergency coinage (Notgeld) typology of the post-World War I period. |
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| Mintage | ND - F#166.4 - ND - F#166.4a) Reverse: mitre with a point - ND - F#166.4b) Reverse: mitre is flat and incurved, the pearls touch each other, space between crown and pearl-circle is 0.3 mm - ND - F#166.4c) like b) but pearls with space, crown - pearl-circle-circle is 0.7 mm - |
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Gotha issued iron notgeld coins during the acute metal shortages of World War I, when copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war economy and municipal authorities across Germany were left to improvise small change from whatever materials remained available. Iron was the stopgap of necessity, not preference — it corrodes readily, which is precisely why surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than the original mintages might suggest.