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| Issuer | Sächsische Webstuhlfabrik Louis Schönherr, Chemnitz |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse lettering | SÄCHSISCHE WEBSTUHLFABRIK LOUIS SCHÖNHERR 10 CHEMNITZ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Sächsische Webstuhlfabrik Louis Schönherr was one of Saxony's principal loom manufacturers, and like hundreds of German industrial firms it resorted to issuing its own zinc notgeld during the acute small-change shortages of World War I and its aftermath. These factory tokens circulated internally — in canteens, company stores, and wage advances — precisely because the Reichsbank could not keep low-denomination coins in supply. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had gone to the war effort.