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20 Pfennig - Warmbrunn Füllnerwerk
| Issuer | Füllnerwerk Warmbrunn |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain flat field at center bearing the large bold numeral '20' in raised relief, surrounded by a continuous inner beaded border that follows the octagonal contour. The circular legend 'FÜLLNERWERK - WARMBRUNN' runs around the periphery between the inner beaded circle and the outer beaded rim. A small six-pointed star ornament appears at the base of the legend, serving as a punctuation device. The overall design is utilitarian and typical of German industrial emergency coinage produced during the First World War. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Füllnerwerk was a major glassworks operation in Warmbrunn, Silesia — now Cieplice Śląskie-Zdrój in Poland — that issued this emergency token in 1918 as Germany's wartime metal shortages gutted the Reichsbank's ability to keep small change in circulation. Zinc, by then, was itself a strategic material, making even these notgeld pieces a footnote in the industrial rationing of the late war economy.