10 Pfennig - Rudolstadt

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.