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10 Pfennig - Leutenberg in Thüringen
| Issuer | City of Leutenberg (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#293.2, Men05#15004.3, Men18#18826.3 |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT LEUTENBERG i.TH 1918 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leutenberg issued this piece in 1918 under the emergency coinage provisions that swept through hundreds of German municipalities as the Imperial war economy consumed copper and nickel wholesale. The Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt principality had been absorbed into the broader German federal structure, leaving small towns like Leutenberg to manage their own small-change crises with whatever metal remained locally available. Zinc was the default of last resort — corroding readily in circulation, which explains why surviving examples in presentable condition are harder to find than the modest size of this community might otherwise suggest.