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5 Pfennig - Annen Gussstahlwerk Akt. Ges.
| Issuer | Annener Gussstahlwerk Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Reference(s) | Men05#598.1, Men18#805.1 |
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| Obverse lettering | ANNENER GUSSSTAHLWERK AKT. GES. 5 ★ ANNEN i. W. ★ |
| Reverse description | Octagonal reverse with a peripheral pearl border following the shape of the flan. A twisted rope circle encloses the central field, within which the large numeral '5' is rendered in raised relief. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' arcs around the upper portion of the rope circle in Latin characters, while three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced along the lower arc outside the rope border, reinforcing the token's function as a small-change substitute. |
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Notgeld issued by the Annener Gussstahlwerk — a steel casting works in Annen, a district of Witten in the Ruhr — reflects the acute small-change shortage that gripped German industrial operations during and immediately after World War I. Large manufacturers routinely issued their own emergency coinage to pay workers when Reichsbank-supplied coin simply wasn't reaching factory floors in sufficient quantity. Zinc was the practical choice: copper and nickel had long been commandeered for the war effort.
The Mehl references place this firmly in the documented Werksgeld corpus, meaning it circulated as genuine internal tender among employees rather than as a collector or propaganda piece.