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10 Pfennig - Walldorf Peter Vinson
| Issuer | Peter Vinson, Walldorf |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Uniface issue. A raised dotted inner circle runs parallel to the raised outer rim, defining the legend field. The peripheral legend reads PETER VINSON around the upper arc and WALLDORF around the lower arc, flanked by six-pointed star stops. The numeral 10, denoting the denomination in Pfennig, is prominently struck in the central field. The overall design is plain and functional, characteristic of German notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Peter Vinson operated a business in Walldorf that issued this zinc notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage of the early 1920s, when municipal authorities and private firms alike were authorized — or simply compelled by circumstances — to produce their own emergency coinage. Zinc was the metal of necessity: copper and nickel had been largely consumed by wartime industrial demand, and whatever remained was tightly controlled.
The Menzel reference numbers suggest two separate catalog editions documented this piece, occasionally indicating minor die or planchet variants between recorded specimens.