2 Pfennigs - Adolfshütte Frank'sche Eisenwerke G.M.B.H.

Frank'sche Eisenwerke operated the Adolfshütte ironworks in the Westerwald region, and like many German industrial concerns in the early twentieth century, issued its own factory token coinage — Werksgeld — to pay workers in scrip redeemable only at the company store. Zinc was the material of necessity: cheap, available, and easily distinguished from official coinage. The two-pfennig denomination sits at the lowest rung of such systems, used for fractional canteen transactions where brass or iron tokens were considered wasteful to produce.