Catalog
1 Pfennig - Dachau Ottmar Opfinger Restaurateur
| Issuer | Ottmar Opfinger Restaurateur, Dachau |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Plain field bearing a single large numeral '1' prominently struck in the center, with no additional legend or decorative elements. The rim is defined by a continuous border of raised beads matching the obverse. The simplicity of the design is characteristic of privately issued notgeld emergency coinage intended for local merchant circulation. |
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Dachau, before its name became synonymous with the concentration camp established there in 1933, was a well-known artists' colony and market town in Upper Bavaria. Local merchant tokens of this type — issued by individual businesses rather than municipal or state authority — filled genuine gaps in small-change circulation, particularly acute in Germany during and after the First World War. Opfinger's iron pfennig belongs to that wave of privately issued Notgeld, when iron itself was a wartime compromise material pressed into service after copper and nickel were requisitioned for the war effort.