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10 Pfennigs - Frankenthal Gusswerk A.G.
| Issuer | Frankenthal Gusswerk A.G. |
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| Reference(s) | Men18#9371.2 , Hasselmann#333.2 |
| Obverse description | An outer pearl rim borders the octagonal flan, with the legend GUSSWERK A.-G. arranged peripherally around an inner pearl circle. Two small five-pointed stars serve as dividers within the legend. The numeral 10, representing the denomination in Pfennig, is prominently displayed in raised relief at the center of the inner field. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUSSWERK 10 A.-G. |
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Frankenthal Gusswerk A.G. was an iron foundry and machinery manufacturer in the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Frankenthal, and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the First World War, it issued its own emergency coinage — Werksnotgeld — to pay workers when small-denomination imperial coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had been requisitioned for munitions production by 1916.