1 Pfennig - Berlin A. Jandorf and Co.

A. Jandorf & Co. was one of Berlin's major department store chains in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, operating stores that issued their own token currency for use within their premises — a practice common among large German retailers before the First World War as a means of managing small-change transactions internally. These zinc pieces circulated exclusively within the store's cashier system and were never legal tender. Jandorf's business was eventually absorbed by Hermann Tietz in 1926, making surviving store tokens from this issuer orphaned artifacts of a retail operation that no longer existed under its own name.