10 Pfennig - Kulmbach

Kulmbach's 1917 zinc notgeld was issued as wartime metal requisitions stripped Germany's municipal coin supplies down to almost nothing. Copper and nickel had been redirected to munitions production under increasingly aggressive Reich procurement drives, leaving smaller municipalities scrambling to authorize their own emergency issues. Kulmbach, a Franconian town of modest size, was one of hundreds that filled the gap through locally sanctioned pieces rather than wait for central relief that rarely came quickly enough.

The Funck 264.2 designation distinguishes this from at least one variant in the series.