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10 Pfennig - Schmalkalden Gebr. Knauf Werkzeugfabrik
| Issuer | Gebr. Knauf Werkzeugfabrik, Schmalkalden |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse mirroring the layout of the obverse. The large numeral '10' is prominently displayed in the center field, enclosed within a raised beaded inner circle. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arcs around the upper portion of the inner ring in bold raised Latin letters, identifying the piece as a small change substitute token. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc of the outer field, and the design is bounded by a continuous beaded border conforming to the octagonal shape of the flan. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Gebr. Knauf was one of several tool manufacturers in Schmalkalden, a town in Thuringia whose metalworking trade dated back to the medieval period and remained its primary industry into the twentieth century. Factory-issued notgeld tokens like this one emerged during the acute small-change shortages of 1917–1918, when the wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel had effectively stripped Germany's subsidiary coinage from circulation. Iron was the stopgap material of necessity, not choice — it corrodes readily and strikes poorly, which is why surviving examples in clean condition are rarer than the modest original distributions might suggest.