10 Pfennigs - Jessenitz in Mecklenburg Deutsche Futterwerke

Deutsche Futterwerke — "German Fodder Works" — was an animal feed processing operation, and this token belongs to the wave of private Notgeld issued by German industrial firms during the early 1920s when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Factory tokens of this type were often redeemable only at company-operated canteens or stores, functioning as a captive currency within the plant's own economic ecosystem. Jessenitz, a small Mecklenburg locality, hosted several agricultural processing concerns tied to the region's livestock economy.