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10 Pfennig - Lohr am Main
| Issuer | Lohr am Main, City of |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Thickness | 1.2 mm |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '10' dominates the central field, serving as the denomination indicator. The word KRIEGSGELD (meaning 'war money') curves along the upper periphery in bold Latin lettering. The date 1919 is inscribed along the lower arc. Two six-pointed star ornaments flank the denomination at the mid-field level, left and right. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border matching that of the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | KRIEGSGELD 10 ★ 1919 ★ |
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Lohr am Main issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1919 as municipal authorities scrambled to address a coin shortage that had been worsening since the war years. The Imperial German government had been pulling copper and nickel from circulation for munitions production since 1915, and by the Armistice the supply of small-denomination coinage had collapsed almost entirely. Hundreds of German towns issued their own emergency pieces that year, and Lohr — a small market town on the Main in Lower Franconia — was simply one of them.