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.
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.