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10 Pfennigs - Dortmund W. Hoening
| Issuer | W. Hoening, Dortmund |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | W. HOENING 10 DORTMUND |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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This is a piece of German Notgeld — emergency coinage issued by private firms, municipalities, and institutions during the acute metal shortages of World War I and its chaotic aftermath. W. Hoening was a Dortmund-based business that, like hundreds of German commercial enterprises between roughly 1916 and 1921, obtained authorization to strike small-denomination tokens in base metals to keep transactions moving when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Zinc was the material of necessity: copper and nickel were requisitioned for the war effort, and zinc was what remained.