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10 Pfennig - Mülhausen im Elsass Warenhaus Dreyfus
| Issuer | Warenhaus A. Dreyfus, Mulhouse (Mülhausen im Elsass) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain raised rim encircled by a continuous border of raised pellets. Within the pellet border, the circular legend reads WARENHAUS A. DREYFUS in the upper arc and MULHAUSEN / ELS in the lower arc, all in raised Latin capitals. At the center of the field, the large numeral 10 is prominently displayed in bold raised figures, denoting the face value of ten Pfennig. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 10 |
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Warenhaus A. Dreyfus was a department store in Mulhouse operating during the German occupation of Alsace, and this zinc token belongs to the vast category of privately-issued Notgeld-adjacent trade tokens that proliferated when small-denomination coinage became scarce or hoarded during WWI. Zinc was the material of necessity — copper and nickel had military priority. That the issuer bears the name Dreyfus in Alsace, a region with a substantial Jewish merchant community and its own fraught political identity between France and Germany, adds a layer of history no catalog field captures.