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1 Pfennig - Scharley Stephan, Frölich & Klüpfel
| Issuer | Stephan, Frölich & Klüpfel (Scharley, Upper Silesia) |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | STEPHAN, FRÖLICH & KLÜPFEL 1 ● SCHARLEY O/S. ● |
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Scharley was a coal-mining settlement in Upper Silesia where industrial employers routinely issued their own token coinage — Werksgeld — to pay workers in scrip redeemable only at company-owned stores, a practice that kept wages circulating within the enterprise rather than the broader local economy. Stephan, Frölich & Klüpfel were among dozens of such firms operating this system across the region's mining districts in the nineteenth century. Zinc was the material of convenience: cheap, locally abundant given the region's metallurgical industries, and sufficiently durable for the short distances these tokens typically traveled.