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| Issuer | Hans Müller, Eslarn |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | HANS MÜLLER 10 ★ ESLARN ★ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Eslarn is a small market town in the Upper Palatinate, and this zinc notgeld piece was almost certainly issued during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany between 1917 and 1921, when base-metal coinage virtually disappeared from circulation as the war and its aftermath drained municipal and commercial reserves. Private merchants — Hans Müller among them — issued their own emergency tokens to make transactions possible at all. Zinc was the material of necessity, not choice.