10 Pfennig - Schorndorf W. Leibbrand Konservenfabrik

Schorndorf's canning industry issued notgeld tokens like this during the acute small-change shortages of World War I and its immediate aftermath, when the imperial government's metal requisitions stripped zinc and copper from everyday circulation. Factory tokens of this type functioned as internal scrip — redeemable at the company store or against wages — and rarely traveled far beyond the issuing works. W. Leibbrand's cannery has left almost no documentary trace in major industrial records, which makes physical survivors the primary evidence that the firm existed at all.