1 Pfennig - Nürnberg Sprengstoff A.G.

Nürnberg Sprengstoff A.G. was a German explosives manufacturer, and like many industrial firms during the First World War and its aftermath, it issued zinc notgeld tokens to address the chronic small-change shortage that plagued German commerce between roughly 1916 and the early 1920s. Factory-issued pfennig pieces of this kind circulated internally among workers — used at company canteens and shops — rather than in open trade, which explains why zinc examples from industrial issuers often survive in surprisingly decent condition.