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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 2900728, member: 39&quot;]Keep in mind that this was notgeld, produced during WW1 at a hastily set up mint in Tabora. The dies for the 5 heller and 20 heller coins were made by (primarily Indian) goldsmiths, were not hard enough for &quot;mass&quot; production and thus had to be replaced fairly frequently.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, they did not really care about the material. Bronze, brass, anything worked. Hence the many type differences - the Jaeger catalog (German, widely used here) uses four catalog numbers for the 20 heller coin alone, with a and b types for each number, plus &quot;more varieties known&quot; for every type. It is also quite difficult to determine whether a Tabora coin is brass or bronze. So a seller or buyer who is into those varieties would have to have the density and conductivity of a coin checked ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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