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50 Pfennig - Ludwigshafen am Rhein BASF
| Issuer | Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik (BASF), Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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BASF issued this zinc notgeld token in 1918 as Germany's wartime metal shortages stripped conventional coinage from circulation. The company — then the world's largest chemical manufacturer and a central supplier of explosives and synthetic dyes to the German war effort — needed a practical solution for paying its enormous Ludwigshafen workforce when official small change simply wasn't available. Factory-issued scrip of this kind was redeemable only within the issuing firm's own payment system, which conveniently kept wages cycling back through company-controlled channels.