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10 Pfennig - Wunsiedel
| Issuer | Wunsiedel, City of |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Aufwärts ★ |
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Wunsiedel's 1920 zinc Notgeld issue belongs to the flood of municipal emergency coinage that swept German towns following the collapse of the imperial monetary system and the acute small-change shortage of the immediate postwar years. The Bavarian town, better known as the birthplace of the Romantic playwright Jean Paul, was one of dozens of Franconian municipalities forced to self-issue because reichsmark coinage had largely vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never replaced.
Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference. Postwar metal allocations favored reconstruction over coinage, leaving municipal treasuries to work with whatever the scrap market offered.