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1 Pfennig - Friedrichswerth Eduard Meyer
| Issuer | Eduard Meyer (Friedrichswerth) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain zinc field featuring the large numeral '1' at center, enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The outer legend reads 'EDUARD MEYER' across the top and 'FRIEDRICHSWERTH' along the bottom, separated by small star stops, all rendered in raised block lettering. A secondary beaded border frames the entire design near the rim. The overall style is utilitarian, consistent with German wartime notgeld emergency coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Eduard Meyer's Friedrichswerth notgeld issue of 1918 belongs to the first wave of German municipal and private emergency coinage, produced when the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions had stripped zinc, copper, and nickel from everyday circulation almost entirely. Private issuers — merchants, municipalities, factory owners — stepped into the gap with their own pfennig-denomination pieces, operating under a tacit official tolerance that would harden into formal regulation only later in the war.
Hasselmann's catalogue remains the primary reference for Thuringian private issues of this type, and the dual citation here suggests reasonable documentation for what is otherwise a thinly attested local issue.