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1 Pfennig - Aumund-Vegesack Fr. Lürssen

Issuer Fr. Lürssen (Aumund-Vegesack)
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Weight 1.2 g
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Obverse script Latin
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Edge Plain
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Fr. Lürssen, the shipbuilding firm founded in 1875 on the Weser near Bremen, issued notgeld pfennig pieces during the acute small-change shortages of World War I, when metal coinage was being systematically pulled from circulation for war production. Private industrial tokens of this kind were tolerated by German authorities as a practical stopgap, with the issuing company effectively guaranteeing redemption within its own workforce.

Lürssen would later build the E-boats of the Second World War. In 1917, they were paying their workers in zinc discs.