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10 Pfennig - Wilhelm I type 1 - large shield - Pattern
| Issuer | German Empire |
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| Year | 1876 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The large-shield 10 Pfennig pattern of 1876 represents one of several competing nickel proposals evaluated as Germany sought a unified small-denomination coinage following the 1871 consolidation of the empire. The Kaiserreich's monetary unification required standardizing coins across dozens of formerly independent states, and pattern strikes in various compositions were produced to test both public reception and mechanical suitability. Nickel was ultimately rejected for this denomination in favor of copper-nickel, a decision formalized through the coinage laws of the 1870s.
AKS 11 pattern pieces are genuinely rare survivors of that deliberation process.