2 Pfennig - Hainitz Grützner and Faltis

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.