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10 Pfennig - Hamburg Rudolf Neugebauer and Co
| Issuer | Rudolf Neugebauer & Co., Hamburg |
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| Reference(s) | Men05#10632.4, Men18#13309.4 |
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| Obverse lettering | RUDOLF NEUGEBAUER & C° 10 ● HAMBURG ● |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rudolf Neugebauer & Co. was a Hamburg-based trading and import firm that issued notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Private commercial notgeld of this type — zinc struck pieces rather than the more common cardboard emergency issues — was produced when municipal and state authorities could not keep pace with demand for low-denomination coinage. Zinc was the expedient choice: cheap, workable, and already familiar from wartime coin production.
The Menzel reference numbers place this firmly within the catalogued corpus of Hamburg private issues, a city whose commercial density produced an unusually large variety of firm-specific emergency coinage.