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5 Pfennig - Augsburg Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg
| Issuer | Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg A.G. (MAN), Werk Nürnberg |
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| Thickness | 1.0 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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MAN's Nuremberg works issued this zinc notgeld token during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when municipal and corporate issuers stepped in because the Reichsbank simply could not keep subsidiary coinage in circulation. Factories with large workforces found private scrip practical for canteen and works-store transactions, and MAN Nuremberg — then producing diesel engines and commercial vehicles at scale — had exactly that need.
Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference. By this period it had already proven its durability through wartime coinage, and stocks were accessible where copper and nickel were not.