Catalog
2 Pfennig - Wilhelm II
| Issuer | Neu-Guinea Compagnie (New Guinea Company) |
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| Year | 1894 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | NEU-GUINEA COMPAGNIE (Translation: New Guinea Company) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Neu-Guinea Compagnie was a chartered trading concern granted administrative authority over German New Guinea in 1885, effectively running a colonial territory as a private commercial enterprise. That arrangement collapsed by 1899, when the German Imperial government revoked the company's charter and assumed direct governance — making this 1894 issue one of the final years of coinage struck under company authority rather than the Imperial Crown.
Berlin's Münze produced these in extremely limited quantities for a territory where barter and trade goods still dominated most transactions. Few ever saw meaningful circulation.