Szczegóły o  elf Germany Lengefeld Wittig und Schwabe Porcelain 2 Marks 1921

During the economic chaos following World War I, Germany experimented with many forms of coins and currency. The State Porcelain Manufactury Meissen had developed a method of minting porcelain coins using steel dies in the late 18th century (this method had been used to mint museum display examples of rare coins), and a number of cities and private companies decided to experiment with using coins of porcelain for circulation and/or sales to collectors in the early 1920s. The dies are made to press coins that are 1/6th larger than the finished coins, since the coins shrink in the firing process.

The primary reference source for these coins is "Munzen aus Porzellan und Ton" by Karl Scheuch (1975).

The clay (red/brown or white) was pressed with the dies, then dried and fired in a kiln. Decoration was then applied to some varieties, and then the coins were fired again at a lower temperature. Red/brown (called Brown Boettger Ceramic) was more commonly used, since it had been found to be more durable than white (called White Biscuit Porcelain).

Scheuch 305a, one year type, minted for Wittig and Schwabe of Lengefeld. Quarter dollar size brown porcelain.

Scheuch ranks this as Rarity IV, which means a mintage of 6,001 to 10,000 pieces. The actual mintage for this design is listed as 6,400 pieces (including all decoration varieties).

Note that Scheuch is ranking his rarieties based upon the total original mintage figures, not upon how many actually survived the bombing campaigns of World War II!

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