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10 Pfennig - Wattenscheid
| Issuer | Wattenscheid, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the municipal coat of arms of Wattenscheid at center, depicting a standing figure within a heraldic shield, accompanied by a smaller quartered escutcheon at lower left and foliate ornamentation at the base. Above the shield rests a civic mural crown. The curved legend STADT WATTENSCHEID arcs around the upper periphery, with the entire design enclosed within a beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Wattenscheid issued this notgeld piece in 1917 as the Imperial German war economy stripped conventional coinage metals from circulation. Nickel and copper were being diverted wholesale to munitions production by that point, forcing hundreds of German municipalities to authorize their own emergency issues. Wattenscheid, a heavily industrialized Ruhr city whose coal and steel output was itself feeding the same war machine that created the shortage, had particular incentive to maintain small-denomination liquidity among its working population.