5 Pfennig - Langenöls Schlesische Holzindustrie Akt. Ges.

Issued by a Silesian timber and wood-processing company based in Langenöls — today Lasówka, in southwestern Poland — this is company scrip (Lagergeld or Werksgeld) of the type widely circulated in German industrial communities during the early twentieth century, when large employers routinely issued their own token currency redeemable only at company-operated stores. Zinc was the practical choice for low-denomination scrip: cheap, easily struck, and of no meaningful intrinsic value to discourage hoarding or export outside the issuing works.