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1 Pfennig - Berlin Kaufhaus Gebrüder Leyser
| Issuer | Kaufhaus Gebrüder Leyser |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Reverse description | The numeral 1 is prominently displayed in large raised digits at the center of the field, denoting the token's face value of one Pfennig. The legend WERTMARKE (meaning 'value token') arcs around the upper portion of the field in bold capital letters. Three small six-pointed stars are arranged in a row along the lower portion of the field. A beaded border encircles the entire design, consistent with the obverse treatment and typical of zinc emergency token issues of the German inflationary period. |
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| Reverse lettering | WERTMARKE 1 * * * |
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Kaufhaus Gebrüder Leyser was a Berlin department store that issued private token currency — Warengeld — during the acute small-change shortages that plagued Germany in the early Weimar period. Retailers of sufficient scale were effectively forced to manufacture their own fractional currency when the Reichsbank could not keep pace with denominations too small to bother printing on paper. The zinc composition is characteristic of wartime and immediate postwar austerity, copper being far too strategically valuable for commercial token production.