1 Pfennig - Berlin A. Wertheim

Wertheim was Berlin's dominant department store for decades — a Zuhaus­warenhausamt-scale operation on Leipziger Strasse that rivaled anything in Paris or London. These zinc tokens were issued as in-store scrip, likely to facilitate small-change transactions during periods when low-denomination coinage was scarce or hoarded, a chronic problem in German commercial life across the late Imperial and Weimar periods. The precise issue date remains unconfirmed in the standard references.