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1 Pfennig - Aumund-Vegesack Fr. Lürssen
| Issuer | Fr. Lürssen (Aumund-Vegesack) |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | FR. LÜRSSEN 1 ★ AUMUND-VEGESACK ★ |
| Reverse description | Plain field displaying the large numeral '1' prominently at center, enclosed within a raised inner beaded circle. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) surrounds the central numeral in the upper arc. Below the inner circle, three five-pointed stars are arranged horizontally in the lower field. The outer rim is decorated with a continuous raised pellet border consistent with the obverse, reflecting the simple, functional design typical of German emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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Fr. Lürssen's shipyard at Aumund-Vegesack, near Bremen, became one of Germany's most consequential naval builders — later responsible for the E-boat (Schnellboot) program of World War II. This iron pfennig token is a product of the wartime Kriegsgeld phenomenon, when private employers issued their own small-denomination pieces to compensate for the near-total disappearance of official coinage hoarded by a public that had already learned not to trust paper. Iron was the material of necessity, not choice.