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15 Pfennigs - Berlin Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse H. Gigling
| Issuer | H. Gigling, Bahnhof Friedrichstrasse, Berlin |
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| Value | 15 Pfennigs (15 Pfennige) (0.15) |
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| Obverse lettering | BAHNHOF FRIEDRICHSTRASSE • H. GIGLING • 15 PF. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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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.