2 Pfennig - Zipsendorf Leonhardwerke A.G.

Leonhardwerke A.G. was a lignite briquette and coal processing operation in Zipsendorf, a mining settlement in Saxony that was later subsumed by the expansion of open-cast mining and effectively erased from the map by the 1980s. This token belongs to the broader German *Werksgeld* tradition — factory-issued scrip redeemable only at company-controlled canteens or stores, a practice that kept wages circulating within the employer's own economy. Zinc was the practical wartime and postwar substitute when copper and nickel were either rationed or unavailable.