10 Pfennig - Stettin

Stettin's zinc notgeld issues of 1917 were authorized under the same emergency municipal coinage programs that proliferated across Germany as the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production. Zinc was the fallback — cheap, available, but deeply unpopular with the public, who found it corroded quickly in circulation and was difficult to distinguish by touch from other denominations.

The Funck 522.2 designation places this among a known die variant sequence for the issue. Zinc pieces from this period survive poorly; corrosion and post-strike degradation are endemic to the type, not incidental.