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2 Pfennig - München Artilleriedepot
| Issuer | Artilleriedepot München (Artillery Depot Munich) |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Obverse description | Plain zinc field featuring a large raised numeral '2' at center, enclosed within an inner ring of raised dots forming a circular border. The circular legend ARTILLERIEDEPOT MÜNCHEN reads around the periphery between the dot border and an outer beaded rim. A small six-pointed star ornament appears at the base of the inner dot circle. The design is utilitarian in character, consistent with German Notgeld emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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| Obverse lettering | ARTILLERIEDEPOT MÜNCHEN 2 |
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German military depot tokens occupy an awkward documentary space — neither official Reichscoinage nor purely private issue — and the München Artilleriedepot pieces are among the better-catalogued examples of this class. These zinc tokens circulated internally within the depot's canteen or store system, allowing the military administration to control soldier spending without releasing standard coinage into an environment where it might not return. The specific Hasselmann reference points to a known type with at least two die variants, suggesting production in sufficient quantity to warrant multiple working dies.