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20 Pfennig - Presseck Mechan. Schuhfabrik Vorm. Müller and Heinz
| Issuer | Mechan. Schuhfabrik Vorm. Müller & Heinz, Presseck |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a continuous pearl border along the eight-sided periphery. A rope or twisted-cord inner circle encloses the central field bearing the large numeral '20'. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arcs across the upper portion between the pearl rim and the twisted-cord border, identifying the token as a small-change substitute piece. Three six-pointed stars are evenly spaced in the lower arc of the legend. The design is austere and utilitarian, characteristic of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the early 1920s. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Presseck is a small town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and the Mechanische Schuhfabrik Vormals Müller & Heinz was one of the factory operations that issued zinc notgeld tokens during the acute small-change shortages of the First World War and its immediate aftermath. German municipalities and private firms alike were forced to produce their own emergency coinage when the Reichsbank's metal supplies were consumed by the war effort and official subsidiary coinage essentially vanished from daily commerce.
Zinc was the default material for such issues — copper and nickel had been requisitioned.