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50 Pfennigs - Eisleben Mansfeldsche Gewerkschaft
| Issuer | Mansfeldsche Gewerkschaft |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a large, bold numeral '50' prominently struck in the center of the field, denoting the face value in Pfennige. The date 1917 is inscribed at the base within the inner beaded border. The circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZ curves around the upper portion of the inner border, indicating this token's function as small change substitute currency. Two six-pointed star ornaments flank the lower portion of the inscription, separated by dot punctuation. A continuous beaded border runs along the inner edge of the octagonal flan. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Mansfeld copper-mining syndicate had operated in the Eisleben region since the medieval period — one of Europe's oldest continuously worked metal deposits. When the German imperial government requisitioned copper and other base metals for war production in 1917, the irony was not lost on one of the Reich's primary copper producers: forced to abandon their own metal, they struck emergency coinage in aluminum instead. This notgeld circulated among the mining workforce as a wage and canteen token during the acute coin shortages of the middle war years.