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10 Pfennigs - Leipzig-Mölkau Hermann Frenkel
| Issuer | Hermann Frenkel, Leipzig-Mölkau |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | HERMANN FRENKEL 10 LEIPZIG-MÖLKAU |
| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse sharing the same general design format as the obverse, with a continuous pearl border following the octagonal periphery. A twisted rope circle encloses the central field bearing the large raised numeral '10'. The circular legend 'KLEINGELD-ERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) runs between the pearl rim and the rope border, with three small star ornaments evenly spaced along the lower arc. |
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Hermann Frenkel issued this zinc notgeld piece out of Leipzig-Mölkau, one of countless small commercial and industrial firms across Germany that resorted to privately struck emergency coinage when the Reichsbank could no longer keep fractional currency in circulation during the early 1920s. Zinc was the material of necessity — aluminium and iron had already been exhausted by wartime demand, and municipal metal supplies were thin.
Mölkau was absorbed into greater Leipzig in 1915, making Frenkel's attribution to the hyphenated locality a minor curiosity in itself.