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50 Pfennig - Mönchengladbach Gebrüder Meer
| Issuer | Gebrüder Meer, Mönchengladbach |
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| Diameter | 24.3 mm |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a continuous outer pearl border following the eight-sided outline of the flan. An inner beaded circle frames the central field, within which the large numeral '50' is prominently struck as the denomination. The circular legend between the pearl border and the inner beaded ring reads 'GEBRÜDER MEER' at the top and 'M. GLADBACH' at the bottom, separated by five-pointed star stops on either side. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Gebrüder Meer was a major textile manufacturer based in Mönchengladbach, a city that became one of the Rhineland's principal cotton-processing centers in the nineteenth century. This zinc notgeld piece was issued during the acute small-change shortages of World War I, when the German Imperial government's requisitioning of copper and nickel for war production stripped the regular coinage system of its subsidiary denominations almost overnight. Private firms, municipalities, and civic bodies across Germany filled the gap with their own emergency issues — zinc being one of the few metals still available in commercial quantities.