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2 Pfennig - Lüdinghausen Maschinenfabrik Pilgrim
| Issuer | Maschinenfabrik Pilgrim, Lüdinghausen |
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| Reference(s) | Men05#15777.2, Men18#19766.2 |
| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain, unadorned field. The large numeral '2' is boldly struck in the center, denoting the face value in Pfennig. Surrounding the central numeral, a circular dotted border frames the circumferential legend reading 'MASCHINENFABRIK PILGRIM' across the upper arc and 'LÜDINGHAUSEN' along the lower arc, separated by small floral ornaments. The overall design is utilitarian and typographic in character, consistent with German industrial emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Maschinenfabrik Pilgrim was a Westphalian agricultural machinery manufacturer, and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the acute small-change shortage of the early 1920s, it issued its own token currency for use within its workforce — valid at the company canteen or cooperative store, redeemable against wages. These Werksmarken filled a genuine gap; Reichsbank coin production could not keep pace with inflation-driven hoarding and melting of metal currency.
Zinc was the default emergency material by this point, copper long since prioritized elsewhere.