1 Pfennig - Berlin Westf. Anh. Sprengstoff AG

Westfälisch-Anhaltische Sprengstoff AG — known as WASAG — was one of Imperial and Weimar Germany's principal explosives manufacturers, with operations spanning multiple sites across Westphalia and Anhalt. Like many large industrial concerns of the period, WASAG issued its own small-denomination notgeld tokens to pay workers when fractional coinage was effectively absent from circulation, a practice that became widespread after 1916 as the German state stripped copper and nickel from the monetary supply for war production. Zinc was the unsentimental solution.