10 Pfennig - Warendorf

Warendorf's 1918 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany after the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for war production. Zinc was the compromise metal — abundant, workable, and considered sufficiently base that Berlin didn't want it. Hundreds of small Westphalian towns issued pieces under the same pressure and with roughly the same authority: almost none.

The Funck 575.2 designation places this as a recognized variety within a documented local issue, not a fantasy piece — a distinction that matters given how many dubious Westphalian notgeld items entered the collector market in the 1920s.