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50 Pfennig - Harburg Schlosswerft R. Holtz
| Issuer | Schlosswerft R. Holtz, Harburg |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Outer pearl border encircles the entire field. The legend SCHLOSSWERFT arcs across the upper portion of the field, with R. HOLTZ inscribed on a horizontal band across the center, separated by a ruled line above a centrally placed anchor device bearing the monogram R.H. on its stock. The legend HARBURG A/E. curves along the lower field, completing the issuer's identification. The design is rendered in plain incuse lettering with a utilitarian industrial character appropriate to a wartime notgeld token. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 50 ★ ★ ★ |
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Harburg's Schlosswerft — the castle shipyard — issued zinc notgeld tokens during the post-WWI shortage of small change that gripped German industry between roughly 1917 and 1923. Private firms, transit companies, and individual factories across Germany produced their own substitute coinage when the imperial and later republican mints could not keep fractional currency in circulation. R. Holtz's issue is a workplace token in the strictest sense: it moved within a closed economic loop, likely redeemable only at the company canteen or against wages.