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5 Pfennig - Aumund-Vegesack Fr. Lürssen
| Issuer | Fr. Lürssen (Aumund-Vegesack) |
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| Weight | 2.1 g |
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| Obverse description | Outer pearl border encircles the entire design, with the issuer legend reading FR. LÜRSSEN and the locality AUMUND-VEGESACK arranged around the circumference, each separated by a six-pointed star. An inner pearl circle frames the central field, within which the numeral 5 is prominently raised in relief, denoting the denomination. The design is utilitarian in character, typical of German notgeld emergency coinage of the World War I era. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Fr. Lürssen Schiffswerft, founded in 1875 on the Weser near Bremen, issued private iron emergency coinage — Kriegsgeld — during World War I when the Imperial government's requisitioning of copper and nickel left employers unable to provide small change for wage payments. Shipyard tokens of this kind were typically redeemable only at company-affiliated shops, effectively tying workers' spending to the issuing firm.
Iron was corrode-prone from the start, and survivors in undamaged condition are consistently harder to locate than the Menzel census numbers suggest.