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10 Pfennig - Hirschberg Maschinenbau AG. vorm. Starke and Hoffmann
| Issuer | Maschinenbau-AG vormals Starke & Hoffmann, Hirschberg |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | A continuous pearl border frames the entire obverse field. The issuer's name is presented as a circular legend reading MASCHINENBAU-A.-G. around the upper periphery, with HOFFMANN along the lower periphery, while the central field carries a two-line inscription reading vorm. / STARKE / & in incuse raised lettering. The overall design is purely typographic, with no pictorial elements, characteristic of German Notgeld industrial tokens of the early 1920s. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Starke & Hoffmann was a Silesian machinery manufacturer operating out of Hirschberg (now Jelenia Góra, Poland), and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the acute small-change shortage of World War I, it issued zinc notgeld to pay workers when Reichsbank coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. The practice was technically illegal but universally tolerated — the imperial government had neither the metal nor the administrative capacity to suppress it.
The Men18 reference places this within Menzel's catalog of industrial emergency coinage, a category distinct from the municipal notgeld issues that dominate most collections.