1 Pfennig - Lüdinghausen Maschinenfabrik Pilgrim

Maschinenfabrik Pilgrim was a Westphalian agricultural machinery manufacturer, and this zinc pfennig belongs to the broader category of German factory tokens — issued by industrial firms to manage small transactions within their own payroll or canteen systems. The practice was especially prevalent in smaller regional towns where coinage shortages during and after the First World War created genuine transactional gaps. Lüdinghausen, a small market town in the Münsterland, hosted several such enterprises.

Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference — copper and nickel having been requisitioned for the war effort well before 1918.