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10 Pfennig - Kötzting
| Issuer | Kötzting, Market Town of |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Within a raised pearl border, the large numeral '10' is prominently displayed in the center of the plain field, with the word PFENNIG arcing along the lower periphery. The upper portion of the legend reads KRIEGSMÜNZE, meaning 'war coin', separated from the denomination by cross ornaments. The peripheral legend is set within the pearl rim, lending the reverse a simple, functional wartime emergency coinage appearance. |
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Kötzting's zinc notgeld issues date to the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when municipalities across Bavaria were authorized to produce emergency coinage after federal copper and nickel supplies were diverted or exhausted. The market town — known primarily as a Whitsun pilgrimage destination in the Bavarian Forest — had little prior minting history, making these zinc pieces a purely pragmatic response to a localized liquidity crisis rather than any civic ambition.