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1 Pfennig - Deggendorf L. and E. Vollmuth
| Issuer | L. & E. Vollmuth (Deggendorf) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Octagonal (8-sided) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse featuring the large numeral '1' at centre, framed by a wreath of laurel or olive branches that forms a partial circle open at the base. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs along the upper arc inside a beaded border. Three five-pointed stars are positioned at the base of the wreath, flanking the opening, while the outer octagonal rim is decorated with a continuous row of raised dots matching the obverse. |
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L. & E. Vollmuth was a commercial firm in Deggendorf, Bavaria, that issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1918 as small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded by a public that had watched metal coinage disappear into the war economy since 1915. Private and municipal emergency issues flooded southern Germany that year, filling the gap left by a Reichsbank unable to supply enough subsidiary coin for everyday retail transactions.
Zinc was the default material for these late-war private issues; copper and nickel had long since been requisitioned.