1 Pfennig - Leipzig-Plagwitz Grohmann and Frosch

Grohmann & Frosch operated as a commercial firm in Leipzig-Plagwitz, the heavily industrialized western suburb of Leipzig that expanded rapidly after rail connections were established in the 1870s. Private notgeld tokens of this type were issued by local businesses and factories to address chronic small-change shortages, particularly during periods when state-issued copper coinage was being hoarded or melted. Zinc was the material of necessity — cheap, available, and undesirable enough to actually circulate rather than disappear into private collections.