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10 Pfennig - Marktleuthen
| Issuer | Marktgemeinde Marktleuthen (Market Municipality of Marktleuthen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 20.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the heraldic shield of Marktleuthen, depicting a rampant lion within a cartouche-style shield surmounted by a decorative crown or crest element, rendered in low relief. The shield is flanked by scrollwork and set within a dotted inner border. The circular legend reads MARKTGEMEINDE at the top and MARKTLEUTHEN at the bottom, with the date 1917 divided across the left and right fields flanking the shield. |
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| Obverse lettering | MARKTGEMEINDE 1917 MARKTLEUTHEN |
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Marktleuthen is a small market town in the Upper Franconia district of Bavaria, and this zinc piece is a product of the acute metal shortages that forced hundreds of German municipalities to issue their own emergency coinage — Kriegsnotgeld — during the First World War. The Imperial German government had requisitioned copper and nickel for the war effort by 1916, leaving local authorities scrambling to keep small transactions functioning. Zinc was the compromise material, cheap and abundant enough to survive the shortage years, though notoriously prone to corrosion and surface degradation in circulation.