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10 Pfennig - Oberlahnstein
| Issuer | Volksbank Oberlahnstein |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is struck from the same dies as the obverse but oriented in medal alignment, presenting an incuse mirror image of the obverse design. The heraldic shield of Oberlahnstein with three wagon wheels is visible in negative relief at center, surrounded by the reversed legend VOLKSBANK OBERLAHNSTEIN and NOTGELD, with the date 1917 and denomination WERT 10 PFG rendered in incuse. This characteristic incuse reverse is consistent with the production technique used for this series of iron Notgeld tokens. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Oberlahnstein notgeld of this type was issued by the local Volksbank in 1917, the worst year of the German home-front supply crisis, when federal small-denomination coinage had vanished into hoarding and the imperial treasury was striking coins in progressively baser metals to conserve copper and nickel for war production. Municipal and commercial institutions across the Rhine and Lahn valleys filled the gap with emergency iron pieces, most redeemable only locally and most never redeemed at all once issuing institutions collapsed in the postwar chaos.