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10 Pfennig - Schönwald
| Issuer | Gemeinde Schönwald (Municipality of Schönwald) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded border, the field depicts a naturalistic forest scene featuring two tall coniferous pine trees flanking the composition, one to the left and one to the right, rendered in fine relief with detailed branching. In the lower center of the field, between the bases of the two trees, two mushrooms are shown growing from the ground amid low vegetation, evoking the Black Forest landscape associated with Schönwald. The field is otherwise unlettered, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Mintage | 1920 - F#486.5 - 100,360 1920 - F#486.5a) Obverse: Star - D is 0.5 mm - 1920 - F#486.5b) Obverse: Star - D is 1.0 mm - |
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Schönwald is a small town in the Black Forest, and this piece belongs to the vast wave of German municipal notgeld issued when central coinage supplies collapsed after World War I. By 1920, zinc was still the only practical metal available to local authorities willing to produce their own emergency currency — copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort years earlier. Thousands of German municipalities did exactly this, making individual attribution essential; catalog references Funck and Men18 remain the primary tools for separating one town's issue from another's.