10 Pfennig - Oberndorf

Oberndorf am Neckar issued this Kriegsgeld piece in 1918 as the German imperial economy buckled under four years of war. Nickel and copper had been systematically redirected to armaments production since 1915, leaving municipal authorities across the Reich to plug the coinage gap with whatever base metals remained available. Iron was the default solution for dozens of small-town issuers that year, and Oberndorf — home to the Mauser rifle works — was hardly insulated from the pressures driving that shortage.