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10 Pfennigs - Brand R. Lupke & Co
| Issuer | R. Lupke & Co. |
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| Weight | 1.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Outer pearl border encircles the entire face. The issuer's legend 'R. LUPKE & Co.' curves along the upper periphery, while the large numeral '10' occupies the central field. Three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc, serving as decorative separators between the legend terminals. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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R. Lupke & Co. was a Hamburg-based merchant house that issued notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Private trade tokens of this kind were technically illegal under imperial coinage law but tolerated — then eventually outlawed again — as the Reichsbank simply could not keep pace with demand for low-denomination coins. Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference; wartime metal requisitions had already stripped civilian minting of copper and nickel reserves.
The Hasselmann reference places this firmly within the documented Hamburg private issues, a corpus that runs to several hundred catalogued types.