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10 Pfennig - Nürnberg A. Herbst and M. Ostertag Baugeschäft
| Issuer | A. Herbst & M. Ostertag Baugeschäft, Nürnberg |
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| Weight | 2.25 g |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a raised pearl border tracing the eight-sided edge. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) arcs across the upper portion of the field within an inner twisted rope circle. The large numeral '10' occupies the center of the rope-bordered inner field. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc of the inner border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Notgeld issued by a private construction firm — Baugeschäft translating literally as "building business" — reflects how thoroughly Germany's municipal and commercial infrastructure collapsed after 1918. With the Reichsbank unable to supply sufficient small-denomination coinage, individual employers routinely issued their own scrip to pay workers, redeemable only through the issuing firm. A construction company doing so is unremarkable for the period, but the zinc composition points toward wartime material constraints that persisted well into the early Weimar years.