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1 Pfennig - Sandow Paul Steinbock

Issuer Paul Steinbock, Sandow (Germany)
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Sandow was a small locality in Lower Lusatia, and like hundreds of similarly sized German communities, it turned to privately issued notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of World War I and its aftermath. Paul Steinbock — almost certainly a local merchant or innkeeper — had these zinc pieces struck to facilitate everyday transactions when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The Hasselmann catalog documents only a single variety, suggesting limited production and a very local distribution radius.

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