10 Pfennig - Reichenbach Wohltätigkeits and Pflegeanstalt

The Convent of the Merciful Brothers at Reichenbach in der Oberpfalz operated a charitable and nursing institution — the Wohltätigkeits- und Pflegeanstalt — that issued its own internal coinage for use within the facility, a practice common among German religious and charitable institutions during the early twentieth century when controlling internal economies was both practical and paternalistic. These tokens circulated exclusively among residents and staff, preventing wages or allowances from leaving the institution's economy.

Nickel-plated zinc points to production during or around the material constraints of the World War I or interwar period, when base metal substitutes were standard for low-denomination institutional issues.