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10 Pfennig - Ziegenhals
| Issuer | Ziegenhals (Silesia), City of |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | The central field displays the large numeral '10' denoting the denomination, enclosed within a twisted rope circle. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE ('small change substitute token') runs around the upper periphery between the rope circle and the outer beaded border. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc between the rope circle and the beaded rim, one at base center and one at each lower quarter. |
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| Mintage | 1918 - F#624.5 - 1918 - F#624.5a) Reverse: footline of 1 is 0.5 mm away from rope circle - 1918 - F#624.5b) Reverse: footline of 1 is 1.0 mm away from rope circle - |
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Ziegenhals issued this iron notgeld piece in 1918 as the Imperial German government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped conventional coinage almost entirely from local circulation. Iron was the material of necessity — copper and nickel were being consumed by the war effort — and municipal authorities across Silesia were left to fill the gap themselves. Ziegenhals, a small spa town on the Biele river near the Moravian border, was among hundreds of German and Austrian communities to do so.
The Funck reference places this among the more systematically catalogued Silesian municipal issues, though iron examples in collectible condition are harder to find than their zinc counterparts — the alloy corrodes aggressively in average storage conditions.