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10 Pfennig - Ramsdorf Braunkohlenwerk
| Issuer | Ramsdorfer Braunkohlenwerk |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan perimeter, enclosing a circular beaded inner ring within which the large numeral '10' is prominently displayed in the central field. A continuous circular legend reading 'RAMSDORFER BRAUNKOHLENWERK' surrounds the beaded circle, running from lower left to upper right, separated at the base by a five-pointed star. The overall design is utilitarian and typographic, consistent with German industrial notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Issued by a brown coal mining operation in Ramsdorf, this is notgeld — emergency scrip produced by German industrial enterprises during the acute small-change shortages of the First World War and its immediate aftermath. Collieries and heavy industrial concerns were among the most prolific issuers, as they needed to pay large workforces when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort well before 1916.