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10 Pfennig - München Artillerie Werkstätten
| Issuer | Artillerie-Werkstätten München |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a continuous pearl border following the flan edge. A twisted rope circle encloses the large numeral '10' prominently in the center field. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' encircles the rope border, with three five-pointed stars evenly spaced along the lower arc. The design is plain and functional, characteristic of World War I-era German emergency coinage issued by military and industrial establishments. |
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Issued by the Munich Artillery Workshop — one of the major German military manufacturing installations — this zinc notgeld piece circulated internally as factory scrip, a common wartime expedient when small-denomination coinage vanished from general circulation. The Artillerie-Werkstätten München produced artillery equipment and components throughout the First World War, and such tokens allowed the facility to manage canteen and small transactions without competing for the coinage the broader economy had already hoarded or melted.
Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference — copper and nickel were diverted to shell casings.