Catalog
1 Pfennig - Braubach Blei- and Silberhütte
| Issuer | Blei- & Silberhütte Braubach |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | An outer pearl rim encloses a circular legend reading KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE, with the legend bordered on its inner edge by a rope or cable circle. Within the rope circle, the numeral 1 is prominently raised in the central field. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced at the base of the legend between the pearl rim and the rope border, serving as decorative dividers. The design is utilitarian in style, consistent with German small-change substitute tokens issued during the inflationary emergency period. |
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The Blei- & Silberhütte Braubach was a lead and silver smelting operation on the Rhine, processing ore brought down from the Erzgebirge and local Rhenish mines. Like many German industrial works of the nineteenth century, it issued its own small-denomination tokens to manage wages and company-store transactions among its workforce — zinc being the obvious material choice given what the smelter handled daily. The irony of a silver works paying its men in zinc pfennigs was apparently lost on no one.