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10 Mark - Köln Franz Stollenwerk
| Issuer | Franz Stollenwerk, Cologne |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Weight | 2.90 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the large denomination numeral '10' above the word 'MARK', separated by a horizontal line, all rendered in bold raised relief. The date '1921' is inscribed along the lower periphery in evenly spaced numerals. The issuer's name 'FRANZ STOLLENWERK' curves around the upper portion of the field, following the inner border. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border running along the coin's edge, typical of the restrained typographic style employed for Weimar-era German notgeld porcelain issues. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Franz Stollenwerk was a Cologne-based manufacturer who issued emergency porcelain coinage — Notgeld — during the acute metal and currency shortages that plagued Germany in the early 1920s. Meissner and the state porcelain works had no monopoly on the medium; private firms across the Rhineland commissioned their own pieces, and Stollenwerk's brown-glazed issue is among the more obscure of these private commissions, documented consistently across three successive Menzel reference editions without significant reclassification.