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5 Pfennig - Hainitz Grützner and Faltis
| Issuer | Grützner & Faltis, Hainitz |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hainitz — known today as Hajnice in the Czech Republic — was a small Bohemian textile manufacturing settlement, and this zinc piece is emergency money: a Notgeld token issued by the local firm Grützner & Faltis during the currency chaos that gripped Central Europe in the early 1920s. Private employers across German-speaking Bohemia issued their own low-denomination tokens when small change disappeared from circulation entirely, using them to pay wages in fractional amounts workers could spend at company-affiliated shops.
Zinc was the material of necessity, not preference — copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort years earlier.