2 Pfennig - Greppin Greppiner Werke

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.