10 Pfennig - Münden

Hann. Münden issued this aluminium piece in 1947 as Notgeld — emergency municipal currency produced to address the catastrophic coin shortage following Germany's postwar monetary collapse. The Allied occupation authorities had suspended Reichsmark coinage, and local administrations across the British and American zones scrambled to fill the gap before the 1948 Währungsreform replaced the entire currency system. Most of these municipal issues circulated for under a year.