Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Pfennig - Meuselwitz Prehlitzgrube
| Issuer | Prehlitzgrube (coal mine), Meuselwitz |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | PREHLITZGRUBE IN MEUSELWITZ 10 ●✿● |
| Reverse description | The octagonal field is similarly framed by an outer pearl border. A circular legend reading 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs between the pearl border and an inner rope-pattern circle. Three six-pointed stars are evenly spaced at the lower portion of the field between the two borders. The central area, enclosed by the rope circle, bears the large numeral '10' denoting the denomination. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Prehlitz was one of the lignite workings clustered around Meuselwitz in Thuringia, a district that became a significant soft-coal producing region during the late Imperial and Weimar periods. Mine scrip of this type was issued by colliery operators to pay workers in tokens redeemable only at the company store — a system that effectively tied wages to company-controlled retail prices. Zinc was the practical wartime and postwar substitute for the copper and nickel alloys used in earlier notgeld issues, its adoption here almost certainly dating the piece to the material shortages of 1917–1923.