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10 Pfennigs - Bromberg Herm. Löhnert Aktiengesellschaft
| Issuer | Herm. Löhnert Aktiengesellschaft, Bromberg |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with the large numeral '10' prominently struck in the central field, surrounded by a raised beaded inner circle. The issuer's legend 'HERM. LÖHNERT AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT' is inscribed in raised Latin letters around the periphery, following the octagonal contour of the token. The overall design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency coinage production. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features the large numeral '10' prominently in the central field, enclosed within a raised rope or cable inner border. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' curves along the upper periphery in raised Latin letters, identifying the piece as a small-change substitute token. Three small five-pointed stars are positioned in the lower field below the central numeral, and a dotted border follows the octagonal edge of the token. |
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Bromberg — now Bydgoszcz, Poland — was deep within the German-administered territory of Posen when this token was struck. The acute small-change shortage of 1918, caused by wartime hoarding and metal requisitioning, forced hundreds of German municipal authorities and private firms to issue their own emergency coinage, known as Notgeld. Herm. Löhnert AG was an industrial enterprise, and tokens like this circulated as wage scrip or in-house currency as much as general change.
Zinc was the metal of last resort by this point — copper and nickel had long been diverted to the war effort.