10 Pfennig - Schönwald

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.