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10 Pfennigs - Köln Franz Bender Metzgerei
| Issuer | Franz Bender Metzgerei, Cologne |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a beaded border following the shape of the flan. The legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE runs around the periphery within the beaded rim, encircling a central toothed or rope-style inner circle. The numeral '10' is prominently displayed in the central field. Three five-pointed stars are evenly distributed along the lower margin between the inner circle and the outer 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.