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1 Pfennig - Haidhof Bayerische Überlandcentrale
| Issuer | Bayerische Überlandcentrale Haidhof |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | BAYERISCHE ÜBERLANDCENTRALE 1 HAIDHOF |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bayerische Überlandcentrale was a rural electricity cooperative that expanded aggressively across Bavaria in the early twentieth century, and like many industrial operations of the World War I period, it issued its own notgeld coinage when small-denomination imperial coins were hoarded or melted. Zinc was the material of necessity — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort, leaving municipalities and private concerns alike to stamp tokens from whatever base metal remained available.
The Haidhof facility served a genuinely remote catchment area, which likely kept circulation of this piece tightly local and the surviving population correspondingly thin.