Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Pfennig - Deggendorf L. and E. Vollmuth
| Issuer | L. & E. Vollmuth, Deggendorf |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Plain octagonal iron field displaying the large numeral '1' in the centre. A raised beaded inner border encircles the central numeral, itself enclosed within a continuous outer beaded border that follows the octagonal periphery. The issuer's legend 'L. & E. VOLLMUTH' arcs across the upper field and 'DEGGENDORF' reads along the lower field, both rendered in raised Latin capitals. Two small six-pointed stars flank the numeral at the mid-sides, serving as separating devices between the upper and lower legend segments. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Vollmuth was a commercial firm in Deggendorf, Bavaria, that issued notgeld tokens during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s. Private merchants and businesses across the country filled the gap left by an overwhelmed state mint system, producing iron, zinc, and pressed-cardboard pieces to make ordinary retail transactions possible.
Iron was the material of necessity, not choice — copper and brass had been requisitioned for war production years earlier and remained scarce well into the postwar period.