50 Pfennig - Moosburg Tonwerk A and M Ostenrieder

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.