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10 Pfennigs - Arnstadt Bergschenke Braunsteinwerke
| Issuer | Bergschenke Braunsteinwerke, Arnstadt |
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| Shape | Octagonal (8-sided) |
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| Obverse lettering | BERGSCHENKE 10 ✦ BRAUNSTEINWERKE ✦ |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 * PFENNIG * |
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Arnstadt's Braunsteinwerke was a manganese dioxide mining operation in Thuringia, and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the First World War's metal shortages, it issued its own notgeld coinage to keep small-denomination transactions moving among workers. Iron was the material of necessity — copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort by 1916, pushing municipal and corporate issuers toward whatever base metals remained available.
Menzel 18 #929 places this firmly within the documented industrial notgeld corpus, though mine-specific iron pieces survive in wildly uneven numbers depending on how thoroughly individual operations were later liquidated.