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10 Pfennig - Pförring
| Issuer | Pförring, Market Town of |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | The large denomination numeral '10' dominates the central field in bold relief, with the word 'BIS' inscribed above it. A circular legend reading '✶ GILTIG ✶ 1 JAHR NACH FRIEDENSSCHLUSS' surrounds the field, indicating validity for one year after the conclusion of peace, a characteristic inscription of German World War I notgeld emergency coinage. The legend is punctuated by two six-pointed star separators. The design is framed by a beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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| Reverse lettering | ✶ GILTIG ✶ BIS 10 1 JAHR NACH FRIEDENSCHLUSS |
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Pförring is a small market town on the Danube in Bavaria, and this iron piece belongs to the vast wave of German municipal notgeld issued when wartime metal requisitions drained conventional coinage from circulation. By 1917, copper and nickel had been redirected entirely to munitions production, leaving towns across the Reich to improvise with whatever the imperial authorities permitted — iron being the reluctant answer.
The Funck reference places this among documented Bavarian municipal issues, but Pförring's output was modest by any measure. Iron notgeld from this period corrodes aggressively in anything but controlled storage conditions.