10 kg Eisen

These small paper slips were not currency in any conventional sense. Issued under the Nazi raw materials allocation system, they functioned as commodity warrants — specifically entitling the bearer to claim ten kilograms of iron (Eisen) from designated state-controlled distribution points. The Reich's rearmament drive from 1933 onward created chronic shortages of industrial metals, and warrant-based rationing of steel and iron became a bureaucratic necessity well before the war began.

The extreme small size was deliberate — these circulated in bulk, bundled administratively rather than handed over as individual instruments.