10 Pfennig - Kehl am Rhein

Kehl sits directly across the Rhine from Strasbourg, and its wartime notgeld issues reflect that border tension acutely. Following the armistice in 1918, French forces occupied the bridgehead at Kehl under the Treaty of Versailles, administering the town separately from the rest of Baden until 1930 — one of the longest occupation periods of any German municipality. Small-denomination zinc issues like this one emerged from chronic coin shortages that occupation-era economic disruption made worse, with the Reichsbank unable to reliably supply the occupied zone through normal channels.