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10 Pfennig - Pappenheim
| Issuer | Pappenheim, City of |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the quartered municipal coat of arms of Pappenheim, featuring a lion rampant on a diaper-patterned field, surmounted by a civic mural crown. The shield is flanked by decorative supporters. The circumferential legend reads KGL. BAYER. STADT PAPPENHEIM, separated by star ornaments, and the entire design is bordered by a raised dentilated rim. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Pappenheim's zinc notgeld issues emerged from the same wartime metal shortage that stripped German municipal coffers of copper and nickel from 1916 onward. The city — a small Franconian market town best known as the ancestral seat of the Pappenheim counts and their famous cavalry commander Gottfried Heinrich — issued these emergency pieces to keep small transactions moving when Reichsmünzen had vanished from circulation into hoarding and industrial use.
Zinc was a compromise material: cheap, workable, but corrosion-prone. Survivors in clean condition are genuinely scarce.