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10 Pfennig - Partenkirchen

Issuer Partenkirchen, Market Town of
Year 1917
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Weight 1.8 g
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Reverse description A pearl border frames the entire design. The large numeral '10' dominates the central field, serving as the denomination indicator. A circular legend surrounds the numeral, reading 'GILTIG BIS 6 MONAT NACH FRIEDENSSCHLUSS' with a small six-pointed star as a separator, indicating the coin's validity period of six months after the conclusion of peace.
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Partenkirchen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as wartime metal requisitions stripped municipal coffers of copper and nickel. The town — not yet merged with Garmisch, that consolidation came in 1935 under pressure from the Nazi government ahead of the Winter Olympics — administered its own emergency coinage independently. Zinc was the default substitute across hundreds of German municipalities that year, corroding poorly in circulation and leaving surviving examples frequently pitted.

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