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10 Pfennig - Tübingen
| Issuer | Tübingen, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Tübingen is displayed at center, depicting a crowned shield surmounted by a figure of a wild man holding antlers, all set within a raised inner pearl border. The circular legend UNIVERSITÄTSSTADT TÜBINGEN runs along the outer periphery between the pearl border and the octagonal coin edge, with the city name appearing above and below the central device respectively. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '10' dominates the central field, rendered in bold relief and serving as the denomination indicator. A raised pearl border encircles the numeral, with the legend KLEINGELDERSATZ arcing along the upper periphery and the date 1917 positioned at the base below the pearl border, all within the plain octagonal flan. |
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Tübingen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as the imperial coinage system buckled under wartime metal requisitions — copper and nickel had been systematically redirected to munitions production since 1915, leaving municipalities across the German Empire to improvise their own emergency currency. Zinc was the compromise: abundant enough, workable, but prone to corrosion and surface oxidation in ways that plagued the coins even during active circulation.
The Funck reference places this among the documented Baden-Württemberg municipal issues, with minor die varieties accounting for the split Men05/Men18 catalog entries.