10 Pfennig - Traunstein

Traunstein issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1918 under the same wartime metal shortages that stripped nickel and copper from municipal circulation across Bavaria and the broader Reich. By that point, the German military had consumed so much base metal that even small Bavarian district towns were authorizing their own emergency coinage rather than waiting on a central supply that wasn't coming. Zinc was the fallback material for hundreds of such issues — cheap, abundant enough, and deeply unpopular with the public due to its tendency to corrode rapidly in pocket wear.

The Funck reference numbers suggest at least two catalogued die varieties exist for this type.