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| Issuer | Stadt Volkach (City of Volkach) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | ✤ STADT VOLKACH ✤ |
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Volkach issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1918 as wartime metal requisitioning stripped German municipalities of their copper and nickel supplies. The Imperial government's demand for non-ferrous metals for munitions left small Franconian towns like Volkach with little choice but zinc — a poor substitute that corrodes aggressively in circulation, which explains why presentable survivors are harder to find than the mintage figures might suggest.