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10 Pfennig - Menteroda Gewerkschaft Volkenroda
| Issuer | Gewerkschaft Volkenroda (Mining Association), Menteroda |
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| Composition | Iron |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal iron notgeld token with a continuous pearl border encircling the entire face. A secondary inner beaded ring frames the central field, within which the large numeral '10' appears in bold relief as the denomination. The circular legend GEWERKSCHAFT VOLKENRODA · MENTERODA runs between the two borders, reading around the full circumference, with a small six-pointed star serving as a separator at the base. |
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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.