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10 Pfennig - Überlingen
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Überlingen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded twisted-rope inner circle, a crowned lion rampant facing right — the heraldic arms of Überlingen — is depicted in the central field, holding a sword upright in its forepaw. The circular legend STADTGEMEINDE ÜBERLINGEN surrounds the rope border, reading from upper left to lower right. Several small raised dots appear in the field around the lion, the number and placement of which vary across known die varieties. The overall design reflects the civic heraldry of the Lake Constance city in a simple but bold low-relief style characteristic of wartime notgeld coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADTGEMEINDE ÜBERLINGEN |
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Überlingen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917, when the Imperial German war economy had stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage to feed munitions production. Zinc was the fallback — cheap, abundant, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it corroded quickly and was unpleasant to handle. Hundreds of German municipalities issued their own emergency coinage that year under similar constraints, each responsible for their own dies and distribution.
The Funck reference places this among the catalogued Baden regional issues. Zinc pieces from 1917 are frequently found with post-strike corrosion, making clean survivors harder to source than their original mintages would suggest.