10 Pfennig - Zirndorf

Zirndorf's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the first wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany after the Imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for shell casings and military hardware. By mid-1917, the Reichsbank's official small-change shortage had become acute enough that hundreds of small Bavarian municipalities were left to solve the problem independently. Zirndorf — a small town outside Nuremberg, already established as a toy manufacturing center — was among them.

The Funck 626.2 designation distinguishes this from at least one variant in the series.