10 Pfennig - Lohr am Main

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.