Catalog
1 Pfennig - Gosslershausen A. Conitzer
| Issuer | A. Conitzer, Gosslershausen |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse featuring a continuous beaded border along the periphery. An inner rope or twisted-cord circle frames the large central numeral '1' in the field. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' runs along the upper arc between the beaded border and the rope circle, indicating the token's function as a small change substitute. Three five-pointed stars are arranged along the lower portion of the field, one at the base and one at each side. |
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Gosslarhausen — a small village in the Duchy of Brunswick — was home to one of the thousands of private merchant token issuers that proliferated across the German states in the mid-to-late 19th century when official small-denomination coinage was chronically undersupplied. A. Conitzer's zinc pfennig filled a gap that the state mint simply wasn't filling at the retail level. Hasselmann catalogued these merchant issues systematically, but survivorship is unpredictable — tokens from rural issuers in minor villages were discarded rather than saved once official coinage became adequate after 1871 unification.