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2 Pfennigs - Burghausen an der Salzach Wacker Chemie
| Issuer | Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen |
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| Value | 2 Pfennigs (2 Pfennige) (0.02) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded border, the issuer's name appears in three lines across the field: WACKER- above CHEMIE, with BURGHAUSEN arching along the lower periphery. A small six-pointed star ornament is positioned above the central legend, and a decorative flourish or tilde device separates CHEMIE from BURGHAUSEN. The lettering is rendered in bold, raised sans-serif characters typical of German Notgeld issues of the early 1920s. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wacker Chemie's Burghausen plant, established on the site of a former carbide works acquired in 1914, grew into one of the largest contiguous industrial complexes in the world by land area. Like many large German industrial employers of the early twentieth century, Wacker issued plant tokens to manage wages and canteen transactions internally — a practice that persisted well into the Weimar period partly because it gave employers some insulation against the monetary chaos outside the factory gates. Iron was the practical choice when copper and brass were either controlled or simply too valuable to sink into small-denomination scrip.