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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 144178, member: 669&quot;]<img src="http://www.cosgan.de/images/more/schilder/142.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> to CoinTalk Max.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your item is definitely <i>not</i> a German Imperial 2 pfennig.&nbsp; KM#16 has a very similar reverse but the obverse is totally different, in that it contains the legend &quot;Deutsches Reich&quot;, the year, and the word &quot;Pfennig&quot; around the circumfereance.&nbsp; The coins were also mintmarked either A, D, E, F, G or J.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not a coin of any of the German States either, as the Imperial Government minted all 1 Mark and subsidiary coins in the early 20th Century, allowing the States to mint only coins with a value greater than 1 Mark.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m going to guess that your &quot;coin&quot; - and the pictures at the Italian site as well - are Verrechnungs &amp; Gutscrifts Tokens, similar in purpose to our own Hard Times and Civil War Tokens.&nbsp; Krause describes them as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>The size, reverse similarity, and lack of country or denomination ID all point in the direction of trade tokens IMHO.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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