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1 Pfennig - Abbach Portland-Abbach A. G.
| Issuer | Portland-Abbach A.-G. |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan perimeter. The legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE (small change substitute token) curves around the upper arc in raised Latin letters. An inner wreath or rope circle encloses the central field, where the numeral 1 appears in bold relief as the denomination; three five-pointed stars are positioned at the base below the wreath. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 1 ★ ★ ★ |
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Portland-Abbach A.G. was a cement works operating in Bad Abbach, Bavaria, on the Danube south of Regensburg. Like many German industrial firms in the late Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, it issued its own small-denomination Wertzmarken — factory tokens redeemable at company canteens or stores — to manage internal purchasing without relying on scarce state coinage. The zinc composition places this issue almost certainly in the World War I or immediate postwar window, when copper and nickel were reserved for the war economy.