10 Pfennig - Weissenburg, Elsass

Wissembourg — known as Weissenburg under German administration — issued this iron notgeld in 1917 as wartime metal requisitions stripped municipal coffers of usable coin. By that point, the German military had been systematically pulling copper and nickel from circulation for over two years, leaving small towns across Alsace to improvise their own emergency issues. Iron was the unsentimental solution: cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to rust and difficult to distinguish by touch from other denominations.