10 Pfennig - Burghausen an der Salzach Wacker Chemie

Wacker Chemie established its Burghausen works in 1914 along the Salzach River, and the site grew into one of the largest contiguous chemical plant complexes in the world. During the acute coin shortages of the World War I period, many large industrial employers in Germany issued their own Notgeld tokens to facilitate small transactions among their workforce — state mints simply could not keep pace with wartime demand for low-denomination coinage. Iron was the material of necessity, copper and nickel having been redirected to munitions production.