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10 Pfennig - Vohwinkel
| Issuer | Municipality of Vohwinkel |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing a three-line inscription in bold raised lettering occupying the central area, reading KRIEGSNOTGELD / DER GEMEINDE / VOHWINKEL, with the date 1918 centered below, flanked by two small lozenge ornaments. The legend is enclosed within a continuous pearl (beaded) border running along the inner edge of the rim, with a single raised dot at the top and bottom of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 PFENNIG |
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Vohwinkel was an independent industrial town in the Wupper valley — absorbed into Wuppertal only in 1929 — and issued this zinc notgeld in 1918 as the Imperial German economy buckled under wartime metal requisitions. Copper and nickel had been diverted to the war effort years earlier, leaving municipal authorities to plug the small-denomination gap themselves. Zinc was the material of last resort, and its corrosive instability means surviving examples in clean, uncorroded condition are considerably harder to find than raw survival numbers suggest.