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10 Pfennig - Rehau
| Issuer | Stadt Rehau (City of Rehau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT REHAU |
| Reverse description | A beaded border frames the reverse field. The large numeral 10 dominates the center of the field as the denomination, with the date 1917 inscribed along the lower periphery. The legend KRIEGSJAHR curves along the upper portion of the field, separated from the date by two six-pointed stars positioned at the lower left and lower right, referencing the wartime context of this notgeld issue. |
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Rehau's 1917 zinc notgeld belongs to the first major wave of German municipal emergency coinage, issued after the imperial government's wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel effectively gutted the small-change supply. Rehau, a small Bavarian town near the Bohemian border, was among hundreds of municipalities forced to produce their own stopgap coinage when the Reichsbank could no longer guarantee adequate fractional currency distribution to provincial communities.
Zinc was the compromise material — abundant enough to be spared from the war machine, miserable enough to corrode badly in pocket wear. Most surviving examples show edge and surface oxidation for exactly this reason.