10 Pfennig - Vohwinkel

Vohwinkel was an independent municipality in the Bergisches Land region east of Düsseldorf when it issued this piece in 1918 — it would not be absorbed into the city of Wuppertal until 1929. Like hundreds of German municipalities that year, Vohwinkel turned to iron out of necessity: wartime requisitioning had stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage almost entirely, redirecting both metals to armaments production.

Municipal Notgeld of this type was never legal tender beyond the issuing locality, accepted only by local merchants as a matter of practical agreement rather than law.