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10 Pfennig - Hattingen
| Issuer | Hattingen, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | AMT HATTINGEN (RUHR) ✚ KRIEGSGELD 1917 ✚ |
| Reverse description | The center of the reverse features the coat of arms of Hattingen: a shield surmounted by a displayed eagle with spread wings, flanked by two crossed stalks of grain, with a caduceus-like element rising behind the shield. A double-line circular legend frames the design within an inner pearl rim, the upper arc bearing 'AN DEUTSCHEM GEIST U. DEUTSCH.KRAFT' and the lower arc reading 'BRICHT ENGLANDS GIER TROTZ GOLDES MACHT', separated by small bullet and star ornaments. |
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Hattingen's 1917 zinc Notgeld issue emerged from the acute metal shortages that forced hundreds of German municipalities to produce their own emergency coinage after the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for the war effort. Zinc was the reluctant fallback — cheap, workable, but prone to corrosion, which explains why surviving examples in clean, uncorroded condition are considerably harder to locate than the original mintages would suggest.