10 Pfennig - Alfeld C. Behrens

Beschrijving voorzijde	Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain pearl border following the perimeter of the flan. An inner raised pearl circle encloses the large numeral '10' at center, denoting the denomination in Pfennig. The circular legend in the field between the pearl border and the inner pearl circle reads 'C. BEHRENS' above and 'ALFELD' below, each flanked by a six-pointed star serving as a separator. The overall design is utilitarian, with all elements in raised relief against a flat field.
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Aanvullende informatie	A wartime notgeld token issued by C. Behrens of Alfeld, almost certainly a local merchant or small business covering the acute shortage of small change that gripped Germany from 1916 onward as the imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for the war effort. Zinc was the default material for hundreds of such private issues — cheap, available, and workable without specialist equipment. Alfeld, a small town in Lower Saxony, generated a handful of these municipal and commercial pieces, most of which saw only neighborhood circulation before being superseded by paper notgeld after 1918.