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10 Pfennig - Ludwigshafen am Rhein BASF
| Issuer | Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik (BASF), Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Within a raised square inner frame, the trademarked emblem of Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik (BASF) is prominently displayed in the central field. The company name BADISCHE ANILIN & SODA FABRIK appears as a legend encircling the central device, with the issuing city LUDWIGSHAFEN RH and the date 1918 completing the surrounding inscription. Decorative scroll ornaments flank the inner square on the left and right sides, and a dotted border runs along the outer periphery of the coin's square flan. |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral denomination 10 occupies the central field within a raised inner square frame, rendered in bold relief. The legend ERSATZGELD (meaning substitute money) is inscribed along the upper border, and PFENNIG appears along the lower border, together forming the complete denomination statement. Decorative scroll motifs adorn the left and right sides of the inner frame, echoing the design of the obverse, while a fine dotted border follows the contour of the square flan with rounded corners. |
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BASF issued this token in 1918 as Germany's wartime metal shortages stripped conventional coinage from circulation. The company — already the largest chemical manufacturer in the world by that point and a central supplier of explosives and synthetic nitrogen for the German war effort — needed small-denomination scrip to pay workers at its Ludwigshafen plant. Zinc was itself a strategic material, which makes the choice of composition here notable; by late 1918, even notgeld issuers were being pushed toward iron and compressed coal dust.