Posted 03/16/2011 9:10 pm
You won't find this one listed in the coin catalogues because it's not a coin, issued by a national government. It's a notgeld token. As Germany began to lose the war, central authority collapsed and local authorities in the cities, towns and villages were forced to issue their own money. "Stadt Frankenthal" means "City of Frankenthal". The word missing from the bottom next to the 1918 date is "Kriegsgeld" - "war token". There are two cities named "Frankenthal" in Germany and both issued notgeld, though only this one issued metal tokens.
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