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10 Reichspfennig
| Issuer | Germany (1871-1948) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1936 A - mintage included with 1937 A - 1936 E - (fr) rare - 245,000 1936 G - (fr) rare - 128,503 1937 A - - 36,830,442 1937 D - - 6,882,000 1937 E - - 3,785,740 1937 F - - 5,934,490 1937 G - - 2,131,475 1937 J - - 4,439,429 1938 A - - 70,068,396 1938 B - - 7,852,083 1938 D - - 16,990,241 1938 E - - 10,738,700 1938 F - - 12,306,908 1938 G - - 8,583,983 1938 J - - 10,388,883 1939 A - - 41,170,780 1939 B - - 7,813,867 1939 D - - 11,306,759 1939 E - - 5,078,600 1939 F - - 6,993,039 1939 G - - 5,531,806 1939 J - - 5,557,067 |
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Introduced in 1936 as Germany began redirecting copper and tin reserves toward rearmament, the aluminium bronze 10 Reichspfennig replaced an earlier zinc-heavy composition precisely because the Reich's economic planners had not yet resolved which base metals were expendable. The four-year production window closed as wartime material demands forced yet another substitution — zinc returned in 1940.