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10 Pfennigs - Berlin Martensverlag
| Issuer | Martensverlag, Berlin |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | A continuous pearl border encircles the entire field. The large numeral '10' is prominently struck in the center of the coin, with the word 'WERT' arching above and the issuer's name 'MARTENSVERLAG' curving below, both separated from the central denomination by two raised dots serving as punctuation marks. The overall design is utilitarian in character, typical of German notgeld emergency coinage, with all legends incuse-raised against a plain field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Martensverlag was a Berlin-based publishing house that issued notgeld during the emergency currency period of the early 1920s, when municipal and private issuers flooded Germany with small-denomination tokens to address chronic coin shortages. Private commercial notgeld of this type occupies an awkward taxonomic position — neither fully municipal nor purely promotional — and pieces attributable to specific publishers rather than town administrations are sparsely documented in most standard references.