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10 Pfennig - Usingen
| Issuer | Stadt Usingen (City of Usingen) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT USINGEN ✶ 1917 ✶ |
| Reverse description | A pearl border frames the entire field. The legend KRIEGSNOTGELD curves along the upper periphery, indicating the wartime emergency issue status of the piece. The large denomination numeral 10 occupies the center of the field in bold relief, with the word PFENNIG inscribed in a straight line below it in the lower field. |
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Usingen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 under the same pressures that drove hundreds of German municipalities to produce emergency coinage that year — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort, and the Reichsbank could not supply enough small-denomination coin to keep local commerce functioning. Zinc was the compromise metal of the home front.
The city sits in the Taunus region of Hesse-Nassau, then under Prussian administration. Municipal issues from towns this small survive in wildly uneven quantities; Usingen's output was modest, and the Funck reference remains the primary attribution authority for this notgeld type.