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| Emittent | Eduard Meyer (Friedrichswerth) |
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| Prägetechnik | Milled |
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| Aversbeschreibung | An outer pearl border frames a circular legend reading '* EDUARD MEYER *' above and 'FRIEDRICHSWERTH' below, both surrounding an inner beaded circle. Within the beaded circle, the numeral '1' is prominently displayed in the centre of the field, denoting the denomination. The overall design is stark and utilitarian, consistent with German notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Averslegende | * EDUARD MEYER * FRIEDRICHSWERTH |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
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.