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| Emittent | Heseper Torfwerk G.M.B.H. |
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| Jahr | 1921 |
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| Material | Zinc |
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| Prägetechnik | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Plain, unadorned central field enclosed by a finely executed inner ring of raised beads, itself surrounded by an outer beaded border near the rim. The circular legend HESEPER TORFWERK, separated by a six-pointed star on the left, arcs across the upper portion of the coin, while G.M.B.H. MEPPEN, preceded by a star on the right, completes the inscription along the lower arc. The field bears no pictorial device, the entire design relying solely on the typographic legend and decorative beaded borders characteristic of German notgeld token coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Aversschrift | Latin |
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| Zusätzliche Informationen |
Heseper Torfwerk was a peat-mining operation in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony, an area whose vast bogs had been exploited for fuel since the early modern period. In 1921, with Weimar-era inflation eroding the purchasing power of Reichsmark coinage faster than the Reichsbank could replace it, hundreds of German industrial firms issued their own emergency tokens — Notgeld — to pay workers and keep local commerce moving. A peat company issuing zinc scrip to its laborers is about as prosaic as wartime monetary improvisation gets, and that ordinariness is precisely what makes pieces like this historically legible.