Deutsche Futterwerke G.m.b.H. was a German animal feed processing company, and this token is characteristic of the factory coinage — Werksgeld — issued by industrial employers during the Weimar-era currency crises of the early 1920s. Firms issued their own scrip redeemable at company canteens or shops, partly as a practical response to small-denomination coin shortages, partly as a mechanism for keeping wages circulating within the company's own retail infrastructure.
Nickel-plated zinc was the material of necessity, not preference — strategic metals were scarce and expensive in postwar Germany.
Deutsche Futterwerke G.m.b.H. was a German animal feed processing company, and this token is characteristic of the factory coinage — Werksgeld — issued by industrial employers during the Weimar-era currency crises of the early 1920s. Firms issued their own scrip redeemable at company canteens or shops, partly as a practical response to small-denomination coin shortages, partly as a mechanism for keeping wages circulating within the company's own retail infrastructure.
Nickel-plated zinc was the material of necessity, not preference — strategic metals were scarce and expensive in postwar Germany.