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1 Pfennig - Berlin Kaufhaus Gebrüder Leyser
| Issuer | Kaufhaus Gebrüder Leyser |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Plain zinc field bearing the issuer's name arranged in three lines across the center: KAUFHAUS above, GEBRÜDER in the middle, and LEYSER at the base, all in bold raised capital letters. A small six-pointed star ornament appears above the central inscription and a second star below, flanking the legend vertically. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border running along the coin's periphery. The overall style is characteristic of German emergency token coinage (Notgeld) of the early 1920s, with utilitarian typography and minimal decorative elements. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Kaufhaus Gebrüder Leyser was a Berlin department store that issued private token currency — Warengeld — during the acute small-change shortages that plagued Germany in the early Weimar period. Retailers of sufficient scale were effectively forced to manufacture their own fractional currency when the Reichsbank could not keep pace with denominations too small to bother printing on paper. The zinc composition is characteristic of wartime and immediate postwar austerity, copper being far too strategically valuable for commercial token production.