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500 Pfennigs - Berlin Aktien Gesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation
| Issuer | Aktien-Gesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation (AGFA), Berlin |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Outer milled rim enclosing a continuous raised pearl border. The plain, unadorned field bears the large bold numeral 500 prominently centered, with no additional legend, device, or ornament present. The design is entirely typographic in character, consistent with the utilitarian nature of this industrial notgeld issue. |
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AGFA issued zinc notgeld tokens during the early 1920s to address the chronic small-change shortage afflicting German industry, when hyperinflation was destroying purchasing power faster than the Reichsbank could respond. Factory-issued currency of this kind was redeemable only within the issuing company's own canteen and commissary system, making it effectively a wage-docking mechanism as much as a convenience.
The zinc composition reflects wartime and postwar metal economics — copper and nickel had been requisitioned or were simply unavailable for private issuers.