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10 Pfennig - Kehl am Rhein
| Issuer | Kehl am Rhein, City of |
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| Year | 1917-1919 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a continuous pearl border at the rim, with the circular legend 'KLEINGELD-ERSATZ' (small change substitute) occupying the upper arc, separated by three rosette ornaments in the lower field. An inner dotted circle encloses the central device: the municipal coat of arms of Kehl am Rhein, depicting a shield charged with an anchor flanked by two scrolling volutes and two rosette flowers, rendered in low relief on the plain zinc field. |
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Kehl sits directly across the Rhine from Strasbourg, and in 1917 that geography mattered enormously. The city issued this zinc notgeld as wartime metal shortages gutted the imperial coinage supply — copper and nickel had been redirected to munitions production years earlier. Zinc was the compromise, abundant enough to keep small-denomination exchange functioning in border towns where French and German economic pressures collided in the same marketplace.
The Funck 235.2 designation places this among documented type variants, suggesting at least minor die differences exist within the series.