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.
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.