1 Pfennig - Halle Bruckd.-Nietl. Bergbau Verein

The Bruckdorf-Nietleben Bergbau Verein was a coal mining cooperative operating in the lignite-rich region south of Halle, where companies routinely issued iron or zinc tokens to pay workers in scrip redeemable only at company-owned stores — a practice that kept wages cycling back to the employer. Iron was the material of necessity here, not choice; wartime and postwar metal shortages made copper essentially unavailable for small industrial token issues during the periods when most German Bergbau scrip was struck.