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10 Pfennig - Pappenheim
| Issuer | Pappenheim, City of |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#417.2, Men22.2#25288.2 |
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| Obverse lettering | KGL. BAYER. STADT ★ PAPPENHEIM ★ |
| Reverse description | The central field displays the large numeral '10' in bold relief, dominating the entire face. The upper portion of the legend NOTGELDMARKE curves along the inner border from left to right, while the denomination PFENNIG appears in the lower arc, each flanked by Maltese cross ornaments. The field is plain and unadorned save for the prominent numeral, and the design is enclosed within a raised dentilated border consistent with the obverse. |
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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.