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10 Pfennig - Ortrand
| Issuer | City of Ortrand |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | A raised pearl border encircles the entire field. At center, the municipal coat of arms of Ortrand is depicted as a cartouche-shaped shield bearing a rampant lion facing left. The issuer legend 'STADT ORTRAND' arcs along the upper periphery, with two small six-pointed star stops flanking the date '1918' at the lower field. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ortrand is a small town in Brandenburg, and like hundreds of German municipalities it resorted to emergency coinage — Notgeld — in 1918 as wartime metal requisitions and hoarding drained official small change from circulation entirely. Iron was the fallback material precisely because it had been largely rejected by the Reichsbank's own wartime issues; municipalities took what they could get. The dual Funck and Menzel references here indicate at least two recognized die variants for this single denomination, a common situation in municipal iron Notgeld where striking equipment and dies were sourced locally with little standardization.