5 Pfennigs - Euskirchen Kantine W. Schunicht

Canteen tokens of this type were issued by private employers in Imperial and Weimar-era Germany to control on-site spending — workers received tokens as part of wage arrangements, redeemable only at the company canteen, effectively tying a portion of earnings to a captive vendor. Schunicht's Euskirchen operation was modest enough that surviving pieces are genuinely scarce; the Hasselmann corpus documents only a handful of confirmed examples.

Zinc was the material of necessity for small-denomination canteen issues, particularly after wartime metal restrictions made brass and copper impractical.