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1 kg Eisen
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Kg EISEN |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse; plain white paper showing faint ink strike-through from the obverse impression. |
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Issued in Germany during or immediately after World War I, "iron notes" (Eisengeldscheine) were emergency municipal or industrial scrip denominated not in currency units but in quantities of raw material — in this case, one kilogram of iron. The concept was rooted in commodity-backed scrip theory: if the mark was collapsing, a weight of metal felt more tangible than a number.
Whether redemption in actual iron was ever practically enforced is another matter entirely.