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10 Pfennig - Nördlingen
| Issuer | City of Nördlingen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Nördlingen, depicting a displayed eagle on a shield, is centered in the field. A continuous circular legend reading STADT NÖRDLINGEN flanks the shield to the upper left and right, while the date 1917 appears below the shield, separated by two small six-pointed star ornaments. The entire design is contained within a fine pearl border running along the inner rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Nördlingen's zinc notgeld issues of 1917 came out of the same wartime metal crisis that stripped German municipalities of their copper and nickel coinage — both metals requisitioned for shell casings and industrial war production. Cities were left to devise their own emergency fractional currency, and Nördlingen, a small Bavarian market town still enclosed within its medieval walls, was no exception. The 1917 zinc pieces circulated locally until federal authorities eventually regularized the notgeld system.
The Funck 381.2 designation places this among the catalogued variants, with Men18 #23671.2 confirming the secondary classification under the Menzel reference.