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10 Pfennig - Eggolsheim Johann Kraus Erstes Gem. Warengeschäft
| Issuer | Johann Kraus Erstes Gem. Warengeschäft, Eggolsheim |
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| Shape | Octagonal (8-sided) |
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| Obverse description | The octagonal flan is framed by a continuous pearl border following the eight-sided contour. A circular legend in raised Latin lettering reads JOHANN KRAUS / ERSTES GEM. / WARENGESCHÄFT / EGGOLSHEIM, arranged concentrically around the central field and punctuated by two five-pointed stars at the lower left and lower right. The numeral 10, denoting the denomination in Pfennig, is prominently struck in large raised figures at the center of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | JOHANN KRAUS ERSTES GEM. 10 WARENGESCHÄFT ★ EGGOLSHEIM ★ |
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This is a piece of Notgeld — emergency token currency issued by private businesses and municipalities across Germany during and after World War I, when small-denomination coinage all but vanished from circulation. Johann Kraus's cooperative general store in Eggolsheim, a small Franconian village in Bavaria, issued these zinc tokens to facilitate everyday transactions when the imperial coinage system failed to keep small change in local hands. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had long since been redirected to the war effort.