10 Pfennig - Sonthofen

Sonthofen's 1917 zinc Pfennig notgeld emerged from the same wartime metal shortage that stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage across the Reich. By mid-1917, the imperial government had already requisitioned most non-ferrous metals for munitions, forcing hundreds of German municipalities to issue their own emergency currency. Sonthofen — then a small market town in the Bavarian Allgäu — was among the smaller issuers, which keeps surviving examples relatively scarce compared to output from larger industrial cities.

The Funck 512.2 designation distinguishes this from at least one other variant in the Sonthofen series.