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10 Pfennig - Torgau
| Issuer | Stadt Torgau (City of Torgau) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 20.6 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT TORGAU 1917 |
| Reverse description | A pearl border follows the octagonal edge of the coin. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE arcs around the upper portion of the field, separated from the central device by a rope-style inner circle. Within this rope border, the large numeral 10 is prominently struck in the centre of the field, denoting the denomination. Three six-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower interior margin, serving as decorative separators. |
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Torgau issued this notgeld piece in 1917 as the German war economy stripped copper and nickel from circulation for munitions production, forcing municipalities across the Reich to produce their own emergency coinage in whatever base metals remained available. Zinc was the reluctant compromise. The city sits on the Elbe roughly halfway between Leipzig and Berlin, historically more famous as the site where American and Soviet forces linked up on 25 April 1945 than for its numismatic output.
The Funck 543.2 designation distinguishes this from at least one other Torgau zinc variety of the same denomination and year.