1 Pfennig - Bremen Heymann & Neumann

Descrizione del dritto	Octagonal zinc notgeld token with an outer pearl border following the eight-sided contour of the flan. A secondary inner pearl circle frames the central field, within which the large numeral '1' appears in raised relief. The circular legend surrounding the inner pearl border reads 'HEYMANN & NEUMANN' above and 'BREMEN' below, with a small decorative star separating the two elements at the base.
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Informazioni aggiuntive	Heymann & Neumann operated as a general merchant firm in Bremen, and like dozens of similar commercial houses across the German states in the mid-nineteenth century, they resorted to privately issued token coinage when small-denomination official currency grew scarce in local circulation. Bremen's position as a free Hanseatic city with its own monetary conventions made the interplay between official and merchant coinage particularly complicated in this period. Zinc was the cheapest practical metal for such issues, which explains its near-universal adoption by firms of this type.