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A unidentified German cardboard emergency coin or token
Göttinger
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Today I found this unusual emergency coin or token in a bulk of coins I was sorting through.
Do you have any information about it, probably a catalogue reference or a similar coin / token?
Any suggestions are welcome.
The coin/token seems to be made from pressed white cardboard with a (uniface?) tin foil plating.
The inscription reads "Ewada Darre Dresden" (Ewada kiln in Dresden), a company that operated between the very early 1920's and the mid 1930's (probably even earlier, the documents I found are not clear about that).
Even though the denomination should be 10 Pfennig, it's much smaller than a 10 Pfennig coin, probably closer to a 5 Pfennig coin.
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The coat of arms of Dresden has a lion and stripes, quite unlike this very Imperial-looking German eagle, so I would presume the design was to encourage acceptability among a populace still used to seeing that eagle on German official coins.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
Apparently I have been awarded the DPOTD twice.