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10 Pfennig - Zilly D - Zilly
| Issuer | D. Zilly (private issuer, Germany) |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | Encircled by a continuous pearl border, the obverse features the legend WERTH-MARKE arching along the upper field, with the large numeral 10 prominently displayed in the center. Below the denomination, the issuer's counterstamp D-ZILLY is inscribed across the lower field in bold capital letters. The design is utilitarian in character, consistent with privately issued German notgeld tokens of the World War I era, with no figurative elements present. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Private emergency coinage — Notgeld — issued under Germany's wartime and postwar metal shortages, when municipalities and private businesses were legally permitted to strike their own small-denomination tokens to address the chronic scarcity of official coinage. D. Zilly almost certainly operated a retail or industrial concern; the issuer name on private zinc pieces of this type typically indicates a local merchant keeping change circulating within a tight commercial radius.
Zinc was the fallback material precisely because copper and nickel had been absorbed into the war machine by 1916.