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10 Pfennig - Tönning
| Issuer | Stadt Tönning (City of Tönning) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a central circular hole at the top. The field features a heraldic swan displayed in three-quarter view, wings raised, standing atop a cylindrical barrel — elements drawn from the civic arms of Tönning. The design is rendered in low relief against a plain field. A dotted inner border follows the octagonal perimeter, and the encircling legend reads STADT TÖNNING with the date 1917, flanked by small five-pointed stars, all in Latin script. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tönning issued zinc notgeld in 1917 under the same wartime metal shortages that forced hundreds of German municipalities to produce their own emergency coinage after copper and nickel were requisitioned for the war effort. The town — a small North Frisian port on the Eider estuary — had little monetary infrastructure of its own, making its issues genuinely local stopgaps rather than civic vanity projects. The Funck 542.2 designation places this among the documented variants, suggesting at least minor die differences exist within the Tönning series.