Catalog
1 Pfennig - Berlin A. Jandorf and Co.
| Issuer | A. Jandorf & Co., Berlin |
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| Weight | 1.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Reverse design closely mirrors the obverse, featuring the large numeral '1' at center with a short horizontal dash below it, all enclosed within a continuous raised bead ring. The circular legend 'A. JANDORF & Co' arcs across the upper field and 'BERLIN' appears along the lower field. Two small six-pointed star ornaments flank the numeral at left and right within the bead ring. An outer dotted border follows the octagonal edge of the token, with additional dot clusters punctuating the spaces between the legend elements. |
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A. Jandorf & Co. was one of Berlin's major department store chains in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, operating stores that issued their own token currency for use within their premises — a practice common among large German retailers before the First World War as a means of managing small-change transactions internally. These zinc pieces circulated exclusively within the store's cashier system and were never legal tender. Jandorf's business was eventually absorbed by Hermann Tietz in 1926, making surviving store tokens from this issuer orphaned artifacts of a retail operation that no longer existed under its own name.