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1 Pfennig - Oschatz Wilhelm Bieger
| Issuer | Wilhelm Bieger (Oschatz, Saxony) |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a continuous pearl border following the shaped edge. A beaded inner circle encloses the large numeral '1' prominently displayed in the central field. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arcs around the upper portion between the pearl border and the inner beaded circle, with three small six-pointed stars arranged symmetrically in the lower portion of the field outside the inner circle. |
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Wilhelm Bieger operated a business in Oschatz, a small administrative town in Saxony, and issued this zinc pfennig as a privately produced Notgeld — emergency currency filling the gap left by chronic small-denomination coin shortages during the First World War. The German imperial government systematically withdrew copper and nickel coinage from circulation after 1914 for war materials, leaving local merchants and municipalities to produce their own substitute tokens. Bieger's issue is catalogued under Hasselmann's specialist reference for Saxon merchant tokens, placing it firmly within the documented commercial Notgeld corpus rather than the more familiar municipal paper issues of 1921–1923.