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10 Pfennig - Karlstadt
| Issuer | Karlstadt am Main, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | A continuous beaded border encircles the field. The denomination numeral 10 is rendered in large, bold characters dominating the entire central field, with no additional legend or ornamental device. The plain, unadorned design is characteristic of wartime Notgeld emergency coinage produced under material constraints. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Karlstadt's 1917 iron notgeld emerged from the same wartime metal shortage that stripped German municipalities of their copper and nickel coinage — both metals requisitioned for shell casings and military hardware. Municipal authorities across Bavaria scrambled to fill the void with locally issued emergency pieces, iron being one of the few base metals still available to civilian administrations by mid-war.
The Funck reference places this among a documented series, though iron notgeld of this period survives unevenly — many corroded beyond attribution before collectors took serious interest in the type.