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10 Pfennig - Münsterberg
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Münsterberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Weight | 2.1 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Münsterberg — now Ziębice in southwestern Poland — issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as the German war economy stripped copper and zinc from civilian circulation for shell casings and military hardware. The Stadtsparkasse, a municipal savings institution rather than a proper issuing bank, stepped in to plug the gap in small-change liquidity, a role hundreds of similar local bodies assumed across Germany and Austria-Hungary in the final war years.
Iron was an impractical substitute — it corroded quickly and jammed coin-operated meters and vending machines — but it was all that remained.