B.H. Mayer's in Pforzheim was one of Germany's premier private medal and token manufacturers, supplying notgeld and trade tokens to municipalities and businesses throughout the Kaiserreich and Weimar periods. This piece is self-referential in an unusual way — a token issued by the mint itself, functioning as internal currency or promotional scrip rather than civic emergency money. Whether it circulated among factory workers as wage tokens or served a more administrative purpose remains debated among German token specialists.
B.H. Mayer's in Pforzheim was one of Germany's premier private medal and token manufacturers, supplying notgeld and trade tokens to municipalities and businesses throughout the Kaiserreich and Weimar periods. This piece is self-referential in an unusual way — a token issued by the mint itself, functioning as internal currency or promotional scrip rather than civic emergency money. Whether it circulated among factory workers as wage tokens or served a more administrative purpose remains debated among German token specialists.