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2 Pfennig - Greppin Greppiner Werke
| Issuer | Greppiner Werke (Greppin) |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan perimeter, enclosing a twisted rope circle in the inner field. The large numeral '2' is prominently centered within the rope circle. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arcs around the upper portion between the pearl border and the rope circle, with three five-pointed stars serving as dividers at the base. The design denotes the token's function as a small-change substitute marker. |
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Greppiner Werke was a chemical and briquette manufacturing operation in Greppin, a small industrial settlement near Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt. Like many heavy industrial concerns in Wilhelmine and early Weimar Germany, it issued zinc notgeld tokens for internal use — typically to pay workers in denominations redeemable only at the company store, a practice that kept wages circulating within the employer's own economy. Zinc was the material of necessity by the late war and immediate postwar years, when copper and brass had long since been requisitioned.