Catalog
1 Pfennig - Crailsheim Wilh. Habermeier
| Issuer | Wilh. Habermeier, Crailsheim |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Diameter | 16.2 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a large raised numeral '1' indicating the face value, set within a beaded inner circle. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs along the upper periphery, with three six-pointed star stops positioned at the lower portion of the inner ring. The entire design is enclosed within an outer beaded border consistent with the obverse. |
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Crailsheim notgeld like this Habermeier piece emerged from the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in 1918 as base metals were diverted wholesale into war production. Private merchants and firms were legally permitted — under loosely applied imperial ordinance — to issue their own emergency pfennig tokens, effectively deputizing commerce itself to keep transactions functioning. Habermeier was almost certainly a local tradesman whose tokens circulated within a tightly bounded commercial radius, redeemable only at his own establishment.