Pirna's F. Küttner issued this zinc notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when municipal authorities and private firms alike were forced to produce their own fractional currency simply to make commerce function. The 2½ Pfennig denomination is an oddity — fractional values of this kind rarely appeared in state coinage and exist almost exclusively in the emergency issues of this period.
Pirna's F. Küttner issued this zinc notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when municipal authorities and private firms alike were forced to produce their own fractional currency simply to make commerce function. The 2½ Pfennig denomination is an oddity — fractional values of this kind rarely appeared in state coinage and exist almost exclusively in the emergency issues of this period.