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10 Pfennig - Augsburg Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg
| Issuer | Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg A.G. (MAN) |
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| Diameter | 20.8 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | MASCHINENFABRIK AUGSBURG-NÜRNBERG A.G. ❀ ❀ NUR GILTIG IM WERK GUSTAVSBURG ❀ 10 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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MAN issued notgeld tokens like this one during the post-WWI shortage of small coinage, when the German federal government's inability to produce sufficient circulating coin left factories and municipalities to fill the gap themselves. MAN's Augsburg works at the time was one of the largest diesel engine manufacturers in the world, employing thousands of workers who needed small denominations for canteen and on-site transactions — exactly the economic pressure that drove private token issuance.
Zinc was the material of necessity here, not preference, reflecting wartime and immediate postwar metal restrictions on copper and nickel.