10 Pfennig - Neustettin W. Angermann

Neustettin — now Szczecinek in northwestern Poland — was a mid-sized Pomeranian town whose wartime economy, like hundreds of others across Germany, generated a flood of privately issued Kriegsgeld when nickel and copper disappeared into munitions production after 1914. W. Angermann was almost certainly a local merchant or tradesman issuing this token to make change, a practice the Reich tolerated but never formally sanctioned. The nickel-plated zinc construction is characteristic of the later wartime issues, when even the base metals used in early Notgeld were themselves becoming scarce.