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10 Pfennig - Suhl
| Issuer | Stadt Suhl (City of Suhl) |
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| Reference(s) | Funck#528.5, Men05#24686.6, Men18#30865.6 |
| Obverse description | An outer pearl rim frames a circular pearl border enclosing the central field. The large numeral '10' occupies the center in bold relief. The legend 'STADT SUHL - KLEINGELDERSATZ' runs around the periphery between the outer rim and the inner pearl circle, interrupted at the base by a decorative arrangement of two floral ornaments flanking a central star. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT SUHL-KLEINGELDERSATZ 10 ✿ ★ ✿ |
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Suhl's iron notgeld emerged from the post-WWI metal shortages that stripped German municipalities of any viable coinage, forcing local governments to issue their own emergency currency. Suhl itself was already a center of the German arms industry — Simson & Co. operated there — which makes the irony of an iron coin from a gunmaking town difficult to ignore. Iron was chosen for small denominations precisely because it was cheap and abundant, though it corrodes aggressively, which accounts for the rarity of clean surviving examples.