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1 Pfennig - Hildesheim Senkingwerk A.G.
| Issuer | Senkingwerk A.G., Hildesheim |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal flan with an outer pearl border encircling the entire design. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) arcs around the upper periphery. An inner twisted rope circle encloses the central field, within which the large numeral '1' is prominently struck. Three six-pointed stars are arranged in a triangular group below the rope circle at the base, flanked by two additional stars, all serving as decorative elements. |
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Senkingwerk A.G. was a major metalware manufacturer in Hildesheim — producer of enamelware, household goods, and industrial equipment — that issued notgeld tokens during the acute small-change shortages that followed World War I. Municipal and corporate emergency coinage proliferated across Germany between roughly 1916 and 1923, as wartime metal requisitions gutted the official coinage supply. Iron was the default fallback, cheap and abundant once brass and copper were commandeered for shell casings.
Hildesheim's industrial firms issued several such pieces independently of the city's own notgeld series.