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10 Pfennigs - Schönfeld Paul Forelle & Völkel G.M.B.H.
| Issuer | Paul Forelle & Völkel G.M.B.H., Schönfeld |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Beaded border encircles the entire field. The issuer's name 'PAUL FORELLE & VÖLKEL' arcs along the upper periphery, with 'G.M.B.H.' inscribed in smaller lettering across the center just above the large numeral '10' dominating the central field. The place name 'SCHÖNFELD' is inscribed along the lower periphery, flanked by raised dots serving as decorative stops. The design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with German notgeld emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Paul Forelle & Völkel G.M.B.H. was a German notgeld issuer operating out of Schönfeld during the emergency currency period following World War I, when municipal and commercial entities across Germany produced local small-denomination tokens to address the catastrophic coin shortage. Zinc was the pragmatic choice for these issues — copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort, and aluminium supplies were inconsistent. The Hasselmann reference places this firmly within the documented commercial notgeld corpus, meaning it was issued by a private firm rather than a municipality.