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10 Pfennig - Rosenberg i. O. Andr. Pemsel
| Issuer | Andr. Pemsel, Rosenberg in der Oberpfalz |
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| Diameter | 20.0 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features a raised pearl border encircling the entire field, within which a beaded inner circle frames the large numeral '10' prominently centered in the field. The circular legend between the pearl border and the beaded circle reads 'ANDR. PEMSEL' at the top and 'ROSENBERG i/O' at the bottom, separated by five-pointed stars at each side. The design is utilitarian and typographically plain, consistent with emergency small-change token issues of the early Weimar period. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by Andreas Pemsel, a private trader or manufacturer in Rosenberg in der Oberpfalz, this is a piece of Notgeld — emergency currency produced during the acute coin shortages of World War I, when the German public hoarded metal coinage as base metals were requisitioned for the war effort. Iron was the default substitute precisely because it was plentiful and militarily expendable in token quantities. Thousands of such pieces were issued by local businesses, municipalities, and cooperatives across Bavaria and the broader Reich, each redeemable only at the issuing establishment.