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10 Pfennigs - Crefeld Zinnwerk G.m.b.H.
| Issuer | Crefeld Zinnwerk G.m.b.H. |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A double pearl border runs along the full circumference of the coin, imparting a clean, defined rim. The large bold numeral '10' is centered in the otherwise plain field, rendered in raised relief with no additional legend, device, or ornament. The overall design is minimal and functional, consistent with industrial emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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Crefeld Zinnwerk was a tin and zinc processing works in Krefeld, and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the notgeld period following World War I, it issued its own emergency coinage to address the chronic shortage of small-denomination coins that plagued daily commerce between roughly 1916 and 1922. A zinc manufacturer striking zinc coins is an unsurprising but neat piece of industrial logic — the firm was essentially monetizing its own raw material.