10 Pfennigs - Chemnitz Sächsische Webstuhlfabrik Louis Schönherr

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.