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50 Pfennig - Dahlhausen Hardt Pocorny and Co G.M.B.H.
| Issuer | Hardt Pocorny & Co. G.m.b.H., Dahlhausen an der Wupper |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | The octagonal zinc token features a continuous pearl border following the eight-sided periphery, enclosing a circular legend in raised Latin lettering. An inner pearl circle frames the central field, within which the large numeral '50' is boldly rendered in relief, denoting the denomination. The surrounding legend reads 'HARDT POCORNY & Co G.M.B.H.' in the upper arc and '★ DAHLHAUSEN WUPPER ★' in the lower arc, with five-pointed stars serving as punctuation separators. |
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| Obverse lettering | HARDT POCORNY & Co G.M.B.H. 50 ★ DAHLHAUSEN WUPPER ★ |
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Hardt Pocorny & Co. was a metalworking firm in Dahlhausen an der Wupper, a small industrial town on the Wupper river that was later absorbed into Remscheid. This token belongs to the massive wave of privately-issued Notgeld that flooded Germany between 1917 and 1921, when wartime metal shortages and postwar monetary chaos left municipalities and businesses with no practical alternative to striking their own small-denomination scrip. Zinc was the default material precisely because copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort years earlier.