10 Pfennig - Pappenheim

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.