10 Pfennig - Laufen

Laufen's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage that swept Bavaria and the broader Reich after the imperial government's wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel stripped local authorities of the means to make change. The Kommunalverband — a district-level administrative body rather than a city government — stepped in to fill the vacuum, a relatively uncommon issuing authority compared to the town councils and merchants' associations that dominated notgeld production.

Funck 276.2 distinguishes this as a die variant within the Laufen series. Zinc of this period corrodes readily, and survivors with intact surfaces are less common than mintage alone would suggest.