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10 Pfennigs - Dresden Akt. Ges. F. Glasindustrie
| Issuer | Aktiengesellschaft für Glasindustrie, Dresden |
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| Reference(s) | Men18#6928.2 , Hasselmann#265.2 |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a plain outer pearl border echoing the coin's eight-sided form. Within, a rope-twist circle encloses the central field bearing the large numeral '10' in bold relief. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' curves around the upper and lateral portion of the field between the rope circle and the outer pearl border, identifying this piece as a small-change substitute token. Three evenly spaced six-pointed stars ornament the lower field beneath the rope circle. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by the Aktiengesellschaft für Glasindustrie in Dresden, this is a piece of German notgeld — emergency coinage produced by private firms and municipalities during the acute metal and currency shortages of the First World War and its aftermath. Industrial companies frequently issued their own subsidiary coinage to pay workers and facilitate canteen transactions when Reichsbank-supplied small change dried up entirely. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort years earlier.