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2 Pfennig - Hainitz Grützner and Faltis
| Issuer | Grützner & Faltis, Hainitz |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Plain zinc field featuring the large numeral '2' at center, enclosed within an inner wreath-like rope or cable border. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) arcs around the upper periphery between the rope border and an outer beaded rim. Three five-pointed stars are arranged symmetrically in the lower portion of the field beneath the numeral, with one star at base center flanked by one on each side. |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 2 ★★★ |
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Hainitz — now Hajnice in the Czech Republic — was a small Bohemian textile manufacturing village, and notgeld pieces like this zinc 2 Pfennig were issued by private firms during the acute coin shortages that plagued the Austro-Hungarian economy in the final years of World War I. Grützner & Faltis were almost certainly operating a local mill or weaving concern, issuing fractional emergency currency redeemable within their own enterprise or immediate locality. Zinc was the material of necessity by that point; copper and nickel had long since been requisitioned for the war effort.