10 Pfennigs - Scharley Stephan, Frölich & Klüpfel

Scharley was a coal-mining settlement in Upper Silesia whose industrial operators routinely issued their own token coinage — Werksgeld — to pay miners in scrip redeemable only at company-owned stores. Stephan, Frölich & Klüpfel were among the colliery operators who used this system to keep wages circulating within their own economy. The practice was widespread enough in Silesian mining districts that dedicated token catalogs like Hasselmann's exist solely to document them.

Zinc was the material of necessity during wartime shortages, placing this piece almost certainly within the First World War period.