10 Pfennig - Oschersleben

Oschersleben's zinc notgeld emerged from the acute metal shortages of 1917, when the German war economy had so thoroughly stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage that municipalities were left to fend for themselves. The Imperial government's requisitioning of non-ferrous metals for shell casings and military hardware pushed hundreds of small towns into issuing their own emergency pfennig pieces, with zinc — harder to work, prone to corrosion, and deeply unpopular with the public — as the fallback material.

The Funck and Menzel double-listing indicates at least two distinct die varieties for this type, a common result when small municipal contracts were split between local job printers or die-cutters working without centralized oversight.