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50 Pfennigs - Kripp am Rhein Kripper Lederfabrik
| Issuer | Kripper Lederfabrik G.m.b.H., Kripp am Rhein |
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| Diameter | 24.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain raised field. The large numeral '50' is prominently displayed in the center of the field, enclosed within a double border of raised beads. The circular legend KRIPPER LEDERFABRIK G.M.B.H. runs along the upper periphery, while KRIPP A/RH. appears along the lower periphery, separated by small six-pointed star ornaments. The overall design is purely typographic with no figurative elements, consistent with the utilitarian character of German industrial emergency coinage of the early 1920s. |
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| Obverse lettering | KRIPPER LEDERFABRIK G.M.B.H 50 * KRIPP A/RH. * |
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Kripper Lederfabrik G.m.b.H. was a leather goods manufacturer in Kripp, a small Rhine village now absorbed into Remagen. This token belongs to the wave of privately issued Notgeld that flooded Germany between 1917 and 1923, when wartime metal shortages and later hyperinflation forced factories, municipalities, and shops to mint their own emergency substitutes. Industrial firms like this one issued scrip redeemable at company stores or canteens — a system that kept production running when workers couldn't be paid in reliable currency.
Zinc was the material of necessity here; copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort well before 1917.