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10 Pfennig - Tübingen
| Issuer | Tübingen, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Weight | 3.3 g |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Tübingen is depicted centrally within a beaded inner circle, showing a shield surmounted by a reclining figure — the traditional Tübingen arms featuring a rampant boar. The circular legend UNIVERSITÄTSSTADT runs along the upper arc and TÜBINGEN along the lower arc, separated by ornamental dot clusters. A small triangular hole pierces the field to the right of the shield. The design is executed in low relief typical of German wartime Notgeld coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The large denomination numeral '10' dominates the central field, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The legend KLEINGELDERSATZ ('small change substitute') curves along the upper arc of the beaded border, while the date 1917 appears in the lower exergual area below the inner circle. A small triangular hole is punched through the left portion of the field, partially overlapping the figure '1' of the denomination. The plain octagonal flan and simple layout are characteristic of municipally issued German emergency coinage of World War I. |
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Tübingen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as wartime requisitioning stripped Germany's municipalities of copper and nickel — both classified as strategic metals by 1916. Local authorities across the Reich were left to improvise small-change solutions on their own, producing a patchwork of municipal emergency coinage that varied wildly in quality and staying power. Zinc was the default compromise: plentiful, cheap, but prone to corrosion, which explains why surviving examples in clean, uncorroded condition are harder to find than mintage figures alone would suggest.