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1 Pfennig - Friedrichswerth Eduard Meyer
| Issuer | Eduard Meyer (Friedrichswerth) |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | An outer pearl border surrounds a circular legend reading 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arranged around the upper and right portion of the coin, with three five-pointed stars spaced evenly along the lower arc beneath an inner rope or cable border. Within the inner circle, the numeral '1' occupies the centre of the field. The inscription identifies this token as a small-change substitute mark, typical of the German Kleingeldersatz notgeld issues of the inflationary era. |
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Eduard Meyer was a merchant or tradesman in Friedrichswerth, a small settlement in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who issued this zinc notgeld token during the severe small-change shortages that plagued provincial Germany in the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Municipal and private token issues like this one filled a genuine transactional vacuum — the imperial coinage simply did not penetrate rural commerce in sufficient quantities.
Hasselmann's cataloguing of this piece places it among a dense cluster of Thuringian private issues, most of which saw extremely localized circulation and survive today almost exclusively in collector holdings.