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1 Mark Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation
| Issuer | Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 96 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation. Eine Mark Nur in den Verkaufsstellen der Gefangenenlager gültig. Bochum, 16. Juni 1917. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a continuous all-over geometric underprint in pale gold-ochre, formed by a repeating pattern of interlocked circles and diagonal cross motifs covering the entire surface. A small star-shaped punch-hole cancellation is visible near the lower centre, consistent with redemption or cancellation practice. |
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Bochumer Verein was one of the Ruhr's largest integrated steel and mining operations, and by 1917 the wartime coin shortage had forced hundreds of German industrial firms to issue their own emergency fractional currency — Notgeld — to pay workers who had nothing smaller to make change with. A steelworks issuing its own money to its own workforce was legally permissible under the circumstances, though the notes were theoretically redeemable only through the issuing firm and carried no backing from the Reichsbank.
The practical implication was that workers bore the redemption risk entirely.