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10 Pfennig - Gispersleben Kantine Pfeffer
| Issuer | Kantine Pfeffer, Gispersleben |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | The numeral '10' occupies the central field in large raised characters, set against a radiating sunburst pattern of incuse lines emanating from the centre. The circular legend 'KANTINE' appears at the upper periphery and 'PFEFFER' at the lower periphery, both in incuse Latin capital letters, encircling the denomination. The overall design is of a plain, utilitarian character typical of privately issued German canteen tokens of the Notgeld period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gispersleben was a village east of Erfurt — absorbed into the city in 1994 — with a modest industrial base that supported canteen-based token economies well into the twentieth century. Kantine tokens of this type circulated as internal scrip among workers, redeemable only on-site and worthless outside the issuing establishment, a system that gave employers tight control over where wages were spent. The iron composition almost certainly points to a World War I or interwar issue, when copper and brass were diverted to military procurement and base metals filled the gap.