20 Pfennig - Viechtach

Viechtach issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917, when the German wartime metal requisitions had stripped municipal circulation of virtually all copper and nickel coinage. Small towns across Bavaria turned to locally authorized emergency issues to keep commerce functional, and Viechtach — a minor market settlement in the Bavarian Forest — was among hundreds that did so that year. The Funck reference places this among the documented Bavarian municipal zinc types, though surviving examples vary considerably in surface quality owing to zinc's notoriously poor corrosion resistance over a century of storage.