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10 Pfennigs - Köln Franz Bender Metzgerei
| Issuer | Franz Bender Metzgerei, Cologne |
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| Shape | Octagonal (8-sided) |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc token with a beaded border following the shape of the flan. The issuer's name and city, FRANZ BENDER METZGEREI KÖLN, appear in a circular legend surrounding a central dotted inner circle. The bold numeral '10' occupies the central field, denoting the denomination. Three small five-pointed stars are spaced evenly along the lower arc of the legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 10 * * * |
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German notgeld tokens of this type proliferated during the acute small-change shortage of 1917–1921, when wartime metal requisitions and post-war economic instability made official coinage nearly impossible to keep in circulation. Individual butchers, bakers, and municipal businesses across the Rhineland issued their own denominated zinc and iron pieces to make change — Franz Bender's shop being one of hundreds of Cologne-area merchants who did so. The Hasselmann reference confirms this as a catalogued Cologne private issue rather than a municipal emergency piece.