10 Pfennig - Schönberg

Schönberg vorm Wald — a small market town in Bavaria — issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as wartime metal requisitions stripped municipal circulation of copper and nickel coinage. By mid-war, the German central authorities had commandeered base metals so aggressively that even minor Bavarian townships were forced to produce their own emergency fractions. Zinc was the compromise material: abundant enough to be permitted, degraded enough to be left alone by requisition officers.

The Funck 482.2 designation places this among a documented series, though surviving examples in collectible condition are infrequent given zinc's susceptibility to corrosion and intergranular degradation over time.