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50 Pfennigs - Dresden Akt. Ges. F. Glasindustrie
| Issuer | Aktien-Gesellschaft für Glasindustrie, Dresden |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | The octagonal zinc flan features a large bold numeral '50' dominating the central field, rendered in raised relief. A continuous beaded border follows the eight-sided periphery of the coin. The curved legend 'AKT.-GES. F. GLASINDUSTRIE' arcs along the upper portion of the coin, while the place-name 'DRESDEN' appears in the lower field beneath the denomination numeral. A small five-pointed star serves as a decorative stop to the right of the issuer's abbreviated name. |
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| Obverse lettering | AKT.-GES. F. GLASINDUSTRIE 50 DRESDEN |
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Issued by a Dresden glassworks cooperative during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany in the early Weimar period, this zinc notgeld piece circulated as emergency currency among workers and local vendors when the Reichsbank could not supply adequate coinage. The Aktien-Gesellschaft für Glasindustrie was among hundreds of industrial firms across Saxony that took matters into their own hands between 1920 and 1922, producing factory-specific currency redeemable within their own commercial network.
Zinc was the material of necessity — aluminum and iron had been exhausted by wartime demands, and brass was too valuable to commit to low-denomination scrip.