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10 Pfennig - Hirschfelde Flachsspinnerei H.C. Müller
| Issuer | Flachsspinnerei H.C. Müller, Hirschfelde |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain outer border interrupted by a continuous pearl (beaded) rim encircling the design. Within the beaded inner circle, the large numeral '10' is prominently raised in the central field. The circular legend reading 'FLACHSSPINNEREI HIRSCHFELDE' arcs around the upper portion of the beaded border, while 'H. C. MÜLLER' appears along the lower arc, flanked on each side by a small five-pointed star. The overall design is utilitarian and typographically plain, consistent with German industrial Notgeld issues of the World War I era. |
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Hirschfelde's flax spinning industry was among the more industrially intensive operations in Saxon Lusatia, and company-issued tokens of this kind filled a practical gap when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage was in chronically short supply during and immediately after World War I — the period when the vast majority of German factory notgeld entered circulation. H.C. Müller's zinc pieces were almost certainly redeemable only at the company store or canteen, binding workers' purchasing power directly to the issuing firm.