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100 Pfennigs - Berlin Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn
| Issuer | Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn (Greater Berlin Tramway Company) |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a plain, unadorned field enclosed by a continuous pearl border following the rim. The denomination numeral 100 is rendered in large, bold raised characters occupying virtually the entire field, without any additional legend, symbol, or decorative element, reflecting the strictly functional design typical of German transport company notgeld tokens of the early 1920s. |
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Issued by the Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn during the First World War, when the German imperial government requisitioned copper and brass for munitions, forcing transit operators and municipalities across the Reich to produce emergency token coinage — Verkehrsmünzen — in zinc, iron, and pressed cardboard. The GBS was one of Berlin's dominant tram operators before the 1920 consolidation that absorbed it into the Berliner Straßenbahn municipal network.
The Men18 reference places this firmly in the Menzel corpus of German notgeld and transport tokens, a cataloguing effort that documented thousands of such issues across wartime Germany.