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10 Pfennig - Heddernheim Kupferwerk
| Issuer | Heddernheimer Kupferwerk |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain, unadorned field bearing the three-line legend of the issuing firm in raised block capital letters. The inscription reads HEDDERNHEIMER in the upper register, KUPFER in the centre, and WERK in the lower register, the latter flanked on each side by a small decorative ornament. The lettering fills the field directly without a surrounding border or inner beaded rim, and the flat chamfered edges of the octagonal flan are clearly defined. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Heddernheimer Kupferwerk, based in the Frankfurt suburb of Heddernheim, was one of Germany's significant non-ferrous metal producers and — critically — a manufacturer of Notgeld blanks and tokens for other issuers during the First World War period. This piece is an in-house works token, issued to facilitate wage payments or canteen transactions when small change shortages made ordinary commerce impossible. Zinc was chosen not for economy alone but because copper, the natural material for a copper works, had been requisitioned for the war effort — a pointed irony that the factory producing metal components could not spare the metal it actually worked.