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2 Pfennig - Oberhofen Soldatenheim
| Issuer | Oberhofen an der Moder, Municipality of |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Plain zinc field at center bearing a large raised numeral '2' denoting the denomination, enclosed within a continuous inner border of raised beads. The surrounding annular legend reads 'SOLDATENHEIM 2 OBERHOFEN i/ELSASS', flanked by star separators, struck in raised Latin letters along the circumference between the bead border and the plain rim. The overall design is utilitarian in character, consistent with wartime emergency Notgeld token production. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Oberhofen an der Moder, a small Alsatian village, issued notgeld tokens during World War I when small-denomination coinage all but vanished from circulation across German-occupied France. The "Soldatenheim" designation marks this as tied to a soldiers' welfare canteen — essentially a military rest facility — rather than municipal commerce proper. Such institutions issued their own scrip to keep transactions internal and prevent coinage from bleeding out of controlled supply chains.
Zinc was the material of necessity by this point in the war, with copper and nickel diverted entirely to munitions production.