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10 Pfennig - Strehlen
| Issuer | Stadtsparkasse Strehlen (Silesia) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#527.2, Men18#30490.2 |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTSPARKASSE 10 ● STREHLEN SCHLES ● |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Strehlen's municipal savings bank issued this notgeld piece in 1917 as Germany's war economy stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage, leaving iron as the only practical substitute. The Stadtsparkasse — a savings institution rather than a municipal authority in the strict sense — was among hundreds of local German bodies that stepped in to plug a circulation gap the Reich could no longer fill. Iron notgeld from this period corrodes aggressively, and survivors in unrusted condition are considerably scarcer than mintage figures suggest.