2 Pfennigs - Hämmern Zelltextil

Zelltextil Hämmern was a cellulose textile manufacturer operating during the acute coin shortages that plagued Germany from the First World War through the early Weimar period. Firms like this one issued their own Notgeld tokens not out of civic obligation but simple necessity — the Reichsbank could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep factory wages and canteen transactions moving. This zinc piece circulated internally, redeemable only within the company's own economic orbit.