Heseper Torfwerk was a peat extraction operation near Meppen in the Emsland region, an area whose boggy terrain made it one of the more productive peat-harvesting zones in northwestern Germany. Company-issued scrip of this kind was common among isolated industrial operations during the early Weimar period, when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely — workers needed something to spend at the company store, and zinc was cheap enough to strike tokens in quantity without worrying much about recovery.
Heseper Torfwerk was a peat extraction operation near Meppen in the Emsland region, an area whose boggy terrain made it one of the more productive peat-harvesting zones in northwestern Germany. Company-issued scrip of this kind was common among isolated industrial operations during the early Weimar period, when small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely — workers needed something to spend at the company store, and zinc was cheap enough to strike tokens in quantity without worrying much about recovery.