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| Issuer | Leonhardwerke A.G., Zipsendorf |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Thickness | 1.1 mm |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse featuring the large numeral '10' at center, enclosed within a rope or cable inner border. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs along the upper arc between the rope border and an outer beaded border that follows the octagonal periphery. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower portion of the field, flanking a central star, all positioned below the rope border in the lower arc of the design. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leonhardwerke A.G. was a lignite briquette manufacturer operating in Zipsendorf, a coal-mining district in Saxony-Anhalt. This piece is Kriegsgeld — emergency money issued by private industrial firms when the imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped the Reich of sufficient coinage to keep workers paid. By 1918, zinc itself was a strategic material, making even these ersatz tokens a minor concession from the war economy.