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15 Pfennigs - Berlin Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse H. Gigling
| Issuer | H. Gigling, Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, Berlin |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Beaded border runs continuously around the periphery of the coin. The central field bears the large bold numeral '15' occupying nearly the entire reverse face, rendered in plain raised relief without additional legend, inscription, or decorative device. The flat, unadorned field gives the reverse a stark, utilitarian appearance characteristic of German notgeld tokens of the early 1920s. |
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| Reverse lettering | 15 |
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Friedrichstrasse station was one of Berlin's busiest rail junctions, and small-denomination brass tokens like this one were issued by private concessionaires — refreshment stand and kiosk operators — to manage change during peak traffic when Reichsbank coin was in chronically short supply. H. Gigling almost certainly ran a platform-side operation there. These Bahnhof trade tokens circulated only within their issuer's premises and had no validity elsewhere, a legal distinction that kept them off the Reichsbank's radar during the notgeld-heavy years of the early 1920s.