10 Pfennig - Kirchheim unter Teck

Kirchheim unter Teck issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as wartime metal shortages rendered regular coinage effectively impossible to maintain in circulation. By that point, nickel and copper had been requisitioned for munitions production for years, and hundreds of German municipalities were printing or striking their own emergency money to keep local commerce functional. Iron was the last practical option — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who associated it with poverty and wartime austerity.

The Funck reference places this among the documented municipal iron issues, though survival rates for circulated iron notgeld are uneven due to corrosion.