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1 Pfennig - Mühlheim am Main Offenbacher Schrauben Industrie
| Issuer | Offenbacher Schrauben Industrie, Mühlheim am Main |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a continuous pearl border, the large numeral '1' is prominently centered in the field, flanked on either side by the circular legend reading 'OFFENB.SCHRAUBEN JNDUSTRIE' at the top and 'MÜHLHEIM A/M' at the bottom, each segment separated by bullet points. The design is utilitarian and unadorned, characteristic of German notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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Issued by the Offenbacher Schrauben Industrie — a screw and fastener manufacturer in Mühlheim am Main — this is a piece of German industrial notgeld, the kind of emergency token that proliferated during the severe small-change shortages of the early 1920s. Factories and businesses across Germany issued their own pfennig denominations when the official supply collapsed under inflationary pressure, and zinc was the practical choice: cheap, available, and easy to stamp.
Hasselmann catalogued hundreds of these manufacturer-specific issues, most surviving in small quantities and rarely found in circulation wear.