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10 Pfennig - Schönwald
| Issuer | Schönwald, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 0.9 mm |
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| Obverse description | Large numeral '10' occupies the central field, rendered in bold raised relief. A continuous circular legend surrounds the denomination, reading 'GEMEINDE SCHOENWALD' along the upper arc and 'KRIEGSGELD' along the lower arc, separated by star-shaped stops at each side, with the date '1918' appearing to the right. The design is plain and utilitarian in character, consistent with wartime Notgeld emergency coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEINDE SCHOENWALD 1918 10 ★ KRIEGSGELD ★ |
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Schönwald is a small porcelain-manufacturing town in the Black Forest, and like hundreds of German municipalities in 1918, it issued its own emergency coinage — Kriegsgeld — as the imperial government's metal requisitions drained iron, copper, and zinc from civilian circulation. By late 1918 the German military procurement apparatus had absorbed so much raw coinage metal that local authorities were effectively left to solve the small-change crisis themselves. The Funck reference places this piece within a documented series, but municipal iron issues from this period were struck in small quantities and saw hard use.