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| Issuer | Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (A.E.G.), Berlin |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | WERT-MARKE 10 ● A.E.G. ● |
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| Edge | Plain |
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A.E.G. issued this token during World War I when the German imperial government requisitioned copper and nickel for munitions, leaving industrial employers scrambling to produce small-denomination substitutes for wage payments and canteen purchases. The Zinkmarken issued by major factories were a practical response to the near-total disappearance of state coinage from everyday transactions. A.E.G., by that point one of the largest electrical engineering firms in the world and a critical supplier to the war effort, had both the need and the infrastructure to produce them in volume.