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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tbirde, post: 131803, member: 85&quot;]For #5:</p><p>Wert-Marke.</p><p>These are normally known as waiter&#039;s checks. The token may also belong to a restaurant,</p><p>as 15 pfennig was the standard price for beer. The most famous manufacturer of</p><p>Wert-marken was L. Christian Lauer in Nürnberg, but there were several other manufacturers.</p><p>They may be circa 1900-1940, except for 1915-1923 when most copper was used during WWI and</p><p>hyper inflation 1922-23 needed higher values. It may be impossible to trace their origin.</p><p>There was a standard for marking wertmarken with 2 or 3 letters. These tokens were not used only in Germany.</p><p>There are many wert marken listed in catalogs by Menzel and Hasselmann.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple &#039;10&#039; pieces are halfway down my web page here:</p><p><a href="http://home.psknet.com/tbirde3/Medals/Medals.html#Tokens" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://home.psknet.com/tbirde3/Medals/Medals.html#Tokens" rel="nofollow">http://home.psknet.com/tbirde3/Medals/Medals.html#Tokens</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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