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10 Pfennig - Weilburg an der Lahn
| Issuer | City of Weilburg an der Lahn |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Obverse description | Facing left bust of a bearded male figure wearing a World War I-era German Stahlhelm (steel helmet), depicted in high relief against a flat field. The portrait occupies the majority of the octagonal flan, with the figure's chin and beard rendered in fine detail. The Fraktur blackletter legend 'Weilburg a/L' arcs along the left peripheral facets, while the date '1917' with a cross (✠) ornament appears along the right peripheral facets. The designer's name 'w.o.prack' is inscribed in small characters at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Weilburg a/L 1917✠ w.o.prack |
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Weilburg's 1917 iron notgeld emerged from the same wartime metal shortage that stripped German municipal coffers of copper and zinc — both redirected to shell casings and military hardware. By mid-war, the imperial government had effectively requisitioned coinage metals, leaving hundreds of small cities to improvise with whatever was available. Iron was the ugly solution.
The Funck catalogue's .3 suffix indicates a die variety within the type, suggesting Weilburg issued this denomination across multiple production runs — not unusual for a municipality managing an unpredictable local circulation demand through 1917 and into 1918.