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5 Pfennig - Frauendorf Zementwerke
| Issuer | Zementwerke Frauendorf (Cement Works) |
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| Thickness | 0.9 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 5 ★ ★ ★ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Frauendorf Zementwerke issued this zinc notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, when private firms, municipalities, and cooperatives across the country began producing their own emergency coinage to keep wages and canteen transactions moving. Zinc was the practical choice — cheap, available, and already familiar from wartime coinage.
The Menzel reference numbers suggest two catalog editions have documented this piece, indicating it has been consistently recognized in specialist literature on German industrial notgeld rather than slipping through as an obscure variant.