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10 Pfennig - Rudolstadt
| Issuer | City of Rudolstadt (Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Pearl bead border frames the entire field. The legend 'KRIEGSNOTGELD' (war emergency money) curves along the left side of the field in raised Latin capitals. The large bold numeral '10' dominates the centre as the denomination. The split date '19' and '18' appears flanking the lower portion of the numeral, and the abbreviation '• P.G. •' (Pfennig) is inscribed below the denomination near the base. A small round hole is punched through the lower field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rudolstadt issued this notgeld piece in 1918 as wartime metal requisitions stripped municipal coffers of copper and nickel. Iron was the fallback across hundreds of German cities that year, and the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt principality — already absorbed into the broader German federal structure — left coinage decisions largely to local administrations scrambling for small change. The Funck reference places this among the better-documented Thuringian municipal issues, though surviving examples corrode readily.