Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Pfennig - Gerresheim Glashüttenwerk vorm. Ferd. Heye
| Issuer | Gerresheimer Glashüttenwerke vorm. Ferd. Heye A.-G. |
|---|---|
| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | A.-G. D. GERRESHEIMER GLASHÜTTENWERKE VORM. FERD. HEYE H Heye 1917 ✶ |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Gerresheimer Glashüttenwerke, founded in 1864 outside Düsseldorf, became one of Germany's most important industrial glassmakers — and by 1917, the wartime metal shortage had pushed even large private manufacturers to issue their own notgeld coinage to pay workers when Reichsmünzen had effectively vanished from daily circulation. Zinc was the compromise material of the war economy: iron and copper were military priorities, and aluminum supplies were similarly constrained.
Factory-issued pfennig pieces of this type rarely survived in quantity; workers spent them, lost them, or discarded them once the emergency passed.