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1 Pfennig - Ratibor Eisenbahn Haupt Werkstatt
| Issuer | Eisenbahn Haupt-Werkstatt Ratibor (Railway Main Workshop Ratibor) |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | ● EISENBAHN ● HAUPT- WERKSTATT ● RATIBOR ● |
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| Reverse lettering | ERSATZKLEINGELD 1 * PFENNIG * |
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Railway workshop tokens of this type were issued as internal scrip — redeemable only at the company canteen or store — allowing employers to advance wages without releasing spendable currency into the broader economy. The Eisenbahn Haupt-Werkstatt at Ratibor (now Racibórz, in present-day Poland) was a major Prussian state railway maintenance facility, and its workers would have encountered these iron pieces as a routine part of daily life in the shops. Iron was chosen not for convenience but for deliberate inconvertibility; it made forgery pointless and hoarding unattractive.