Please help provide more information: Stadt Eschwege coin, 25 pfennig, No date [opgelost]

This German 25 pfennig notgeld is not listed with the other Eschwege coins (5 and 10 Pfennig - Eschwege - City of Eschwege) in the Numista catalog. It has no date.

The coin's provenance is from a typical source for a new-to-coin-collecting person like me, eBay. I paid $7.85 for this coin. The seller specializes in world coins and miscellaneous memorabilia... baseball trading cards, etc.

The coin looks like this:

Obverse:



Reverse:



22.0 mm wide

1 mm thick

Weighs 2 grams

Zinc

Condition: EF - UNC.

Any further information regarding this notgeld, like F# and number of coins minted, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

F# 121.3
Mintage: 10 500 pieces
Catalog price: 16 - 24, so 7.85 $ is a real nice price.
The diameter should be 24,3 mm.

Problem solved! Thank you, Essor Prof, for the informative reply.

Did you check the diameter from corner to the opposite corner or from a straight side to the opposite straight side? That might be the difference between your measurement of 22 mm. and the 24.3 mm in Funck.

I measured from flat side to flat. Measuring now from a pointed corner directly across to the opposite corner, I get 24 mm. (My micrometer is a "vintage," manual tool. Getting a number down to tenths of a millimeter is tough. However, I've got a better micrometer on the way.)

Okay, problem solved, 24 mm. and 24.3 mm. is comparable, 22 mm. and 24.3 mm. wasn't.
By the way, very nice coin, especially for a zinc coin, because those German notgeld coins are often not in the best condition.

My collection of notgeld is about 220 pieces; paper cardboard, aluminum/magnesium, and all the other typical metals. Zinc is by far the worst to deal with. Thanks for the compliment.