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10 Pfennigs - Königsberg in Preußen Franz Todtenhöfer & Co
| Issuer | Franz Todtenhöfer & Co, Königsberg in Preußen |
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| Thickness | 1.3 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Issued by Franz Todtenhöfer & Co of Königsberg as emergency money — Notgeld — during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when hoarding and metal speculation effectively stripped circulation of low-denomination coinage. Private firms, municipalities, and even individual merchants were left to print or strike their own tokens to keep trade moving. Zinc was the material of necessity: cheap, available, and already familiar from wartime coinage.
Königsberg's geographic isolation in East Prussia, cut off from the German mainland by the Polish Corridor established at Versailles in 1919, gave local shortages a particular edge.