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1 Pfennig - Braubach Blei- and Silberhütte
| Issuer | Blei- & Silberhütte Braubach |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | An outer pearl rim frames a circular legend reading BLEI- & SILBERHÜTTE BRAUBACH, separated from the central field by an inner pearl circle. Within the inner circle, the numeral 1 is rendered in large raised figures occupying the central field. A small five-pointed star appears at the base of the legend between the two pearl borders, serving as a divider. The overall design is plain and functional, characteristic of German Notgeld emergency coinage of the early Weimar period. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 1 * * * |
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The Blei- & Silberhütte Braubach was a lead and silver smelting operation on the Rhine, processing ore brought down from the Erzgebirge and local Rhenish mines. Like many German industrial works of the nineteenth century, it issued its own small-denomination tokens to manage wages and company-store transactions among its workforce — zinc being the obvious material choice given what the smelter handled daily. The irony of a silver works paying its men in zinc pfennigs was apparently lost on no one.