Catalog
1 Pfennig - Radebeul-Dresden Union Werke G.M.B.H.
| Issuer | Union-Werke G.M.B.H. Radebeul-Dresden |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse lettering | UNION-WERKE G.M.B.H. 1 ✶ RADEBEUL-DRESDEN ✶ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Union-Werke G.M.B.H. was a German industrial firm operating in Radebeul, a manufacturing suburb just northwest of Dresden, that issued notgeld pfennig pieces during the acute small-coin shortages of the early 1920s. Corporate notgeld of this type — zinc, low denomination, purely functional — was produced to pay workers when reichsmark coinage had effectively vanished from daily wage transactions, hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values.
Radebeul-area factory issues are among the least documented of Saxony's industrial notgeld, and the Menzel catalogue cross-references suggest only a single known type for this firm.