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10 Pfennig - Sömmerda Dreyse and Collenbusch
| Issuer | Dreyse & Collenbusch, Sömmerda |
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| Diameter | 19.7 mm |
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| Obverse description | The octagonal zinc field features a plain outer border with a continuous pearl rim encircling the entire face. Within, the circular legend reads DREYSE & COLLENBUSCH across the upper arc and SÖMMERDA across the lower arc, separated by dot stops. A beaded inner circle frames the centrally positioned large numeral 10, representing the denomination. A small circular hole, approximately 2 mm in diameter, is punched near the top of the field, above the numeral. |
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| Obverse lettering | DREYSE & COLLENBUSCH 10 ● SÖMMERDA ● |
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Dreyse & Collenbusch was the Sömmerda weapons manufacturer built on the work of Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse, inventor of the needle gun — the bolt-action rifle that gave Prussia a decisive tactical edge at Königgrätz in 1866. Like many German industrial firms during the First World War, the company issued its own notgeld when small change disappeared from circulation almost overnight, hoarded by a public that had stopped trusting the currency's future purchasing power. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had gone to the war effort.