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| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Volkenroda (Mining Association), Menteroda |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEWERKSCHAFT VOLKENRODA 10 MENTERODA ✶ |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 10 ★★★ |
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Gewerkschaft Volkenroda was a potash mining operation in Thuringia, and like many German industrial enterprises during World War I, it issued notgeld tokens when imperial coinage disappeared from circulation — hoarded by the public or consumed by wartime metal demands. Iron was the obvious substitute: cheap, available, and sufficiently unwanted by hoarders to actually circulate. These mine-issued pieces functioned as wage scrip and canteen currency within the closed economy of the pit and its associated workers' settlement.