10 Pfennig - Roth bei Nürnberg

Issued in 1918 as emergency coinage — Notgeld — when the German imperial government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped copper and nickel from everyday commerce almost entirely. Roth, a small administrative town south of Nuremberg, was among hundreds of municipalities forced to produce their own stopgap currency that year. Iron was the default material by this point; earlier zinc and aluminum issues had already come and gone in the scramble for workable substitutes.