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50 Pfennigs - Euskirchen Kantine W. Schunicht

Issuer Kantine W. Schunicht, Euskirchen
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Reverse description Octagonal reverse featuring a plain outer rim and a continuous pearl border encircling an inner rope-pattern ring. The legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE arcs around the upper portion of the field between the two concentric borders, while the large numeral 50 is centered within the rope circle. Three small six-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc between the borders, serving as decorative punctuation.
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Canteen tokens of this type were issued by private employers in the Rhineland during the early twentieth century, functioning as scrip redeemable only within the issuing establishment's own facilities — a system that effectively tied workers' meal spending to the employer. Zinc was the material of necessity during and after the First World War, when brass and other copper alloys were diverted to munitions production. Hasselmann's corpus remains the primary reference for cataloging these notgeld-adjacent issues, most of which survive in small numbers and rarely turn up outside regional German collections.

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