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50 Pfennig - Radebeul-Dresden Union Werke G.M.B.H.
| Issuer | Union-Werke G.m.b.H., Radebeul-Dresden |
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| Weight | 2.1 g |
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| Reverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token mirroring the structural layout of the obverse, with a continuous outer pearl border tracing the eight-sided periphery and an inner beaded circle enclosing the central field. The large denomination numeral '50' is prominently struck in raised relief within the central field. The circular legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' (small change substitute token) arcs across the upper portion of the annular field between the two borders. Three evenly spaced five-pointed stars ornament the lower arc of the annular field, functioning as decorative punctuation marks. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued by the Union-Werke G.m.b.H. machine and vehicle factory in Radebeul, this is emergency money — Kriegsnotgeld or early Weimar-era Notgeld — produced because the collapse of normal coin supply forced private industrial employers to mint their own wage tokens. Zinc was the material of necessity: copper and nickel had been consumed by the war effort, and what little remained was tightly controlled by the Reich.
Factory-issued pieces like this one rarely left the immediate vicinity of the issuing plant.