5 Pfennigs - Leipzig Tricotagenfabrik

Leipzig's knitting mills — the Tricotagenfabriken — were among the industrial employers who issued their own notgeld tokens during the labor shortages and small-change crises that plagued Germany in the early 1920s. These factory-issued zinc pieces functioned as internal scrip, redeemable at company canteens or wages offices, effectively subsidizing the firm's payroll operations when the Reichsbank could not supply adequate coin. The Leipziger Tricotagenfabrik A.G. was one of Saxony's larger textile concerns, and its token issues are documented across at least two catalogue references, suggesting more than one emission run.