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10 Pfennig - Nürnberg Andreas Macher Maurermeister
| Issuer | Andreas Macher, Maurermeister, Nuremberg |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | A continuous pearl border frames the entire field. The issuer's name ANDREAS MACHER appears in a curved legend along the upper periphery, with MAURERMEISTER arching along the lower inner field surrounding a central inner dotted circle. The numeral 10 is prominently rendered in large raised figures at the center of the field. A six-pointed star divides the lower legend, and the place name NÜRNBERG runs along the lower periphery between the inner and outer borders. |
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| Obverse lettering | ★ ANDREAS MACHER 10 MAURERMEISTER ★ NÜRNBERG ★ |
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Andreas Macher was a master mason (Maurermeister) operating in Nuremberg who issued this zinc notgeld token during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Tradespeople and small businesses across the country produced their own emergency coinage when the Reichsbank failed to keep divisional currency in circulation — a mason issuing his own 10-Pfennig pieces is about as granular as wartime monetary improvisation gets.
The Menzel catalog reference 23776.2 indicates a documented variety within the broader Nuremberg private issue listings.