10 Pfennig - Kreuznach

Kreuznach issued iron notgeld during the acute coin shortages that followed Germany's mobilization in 1914, when the hoarding of silver and copper small change created an immediate crisis for everyday commerce. Municipal authorities across the Rhineland were left to solve the problem locally. Iron was the expedient answer — cheap, available, and sufficiently official-looking to circulate within a defined community that trusted the issuing city to honor it.

The Funck 259.1 designation places this among the earlier documented issues for the town.