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50 Pfennig - Kleinsaubernitz Oberlausitzer Braunkohlenwerk OLBA
| Issuer | Oberlausitzer Braunkohlenwerk OLBA, Kleinsaubernitz |
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| Weight | 2.7 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a boldly struck numeral 50 in large raised figures occupying the majority of the field, denoting the denomination of fifty Pfennig. The design is entirely typographic with no additional ornamentation or inscription in the field. A raised pearl rim encircles the entire reverse, consistent with the obverse treatment. The overall design is austere and utilitarian, characteristic of wartime and post-war German notgeld emergency coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kleinsaubernitz lies in the Oberlausitz region of Saxony, where brown coal extraction drove one of Germany's most intensive industrial expansions during the early twentieth century. The OLBA works issued their own token coinage — Werksgeld — to pay laborers in scrip redeemable only at company-controlled stores, a practice that tied workers economically to the pit and was widespread across German heavy industry before the Weimar-era labor reforms curtailed it. Zinc was the practical choice during and after wartime metal restrictions, when copper and nickel were diverted to military production.