10 Pfennig - Tübingen

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.