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50 Pfennig - Moosburg Tonwerk A and M Ostenrieder
| Issuer | Tonwerk Moosburg A. & M. Ostenrieder |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Tonwerk Moosburg 50 ★ A. & M. Ostenrieder ★ |
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Tonwerk Moosburg was a Bavarian clay and ceramic works operation, and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the First World War's metal shortages, it issued its own emergency coinage — Kriegsgeldersatz — to pay workers and facilitate small transactions on company premises when official small change had effectively vanished from circulation. Zinc was the pragmatic substitute: too base for hoarding, too plentiful to commandeer.
Private works tokens of this type rarely survived in quantity. Most were redeemed or lost within the issuing facility itself.