Fr. Lürssen was one of Germany's most prominent shipbuilders, based on the Weser at Aumund-Vegesack near Bremen — a firm that would later produce E-boats for the Kriegsmarine. This token belongs to the notgeld issues produced during the acute small-change shortages of World War I, when private firms, municipalities, and even shops issued their own emergency currency to keep wages and transactions moving. Zinc was the material of necessity: copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort, leaving manufacturers to work with whatever the blockade hadn't yet claimed.
Fr. Lürssen was one of Germany's most prominent shipbuilders, based on the Weser at Aumund-Vegesack near Bremen — a firm that would later produce E-boats for the Kriegsmarine. This token belongs to the notgeld issues produced during the acute small-change shortages of World War I, when private firms, municipalities, and even shops issued their own emergency currency to keep wages and transactions moving. Zinc was the material of necessity: copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort, leaving manufacturers to work with whatever the blockade hadn't yet claimed.