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1 Pfennig Ammoniakwerk Merseburg/BASF
| Issuer | Badische Anilin- & Soda-Fabrik (BASF), Ammoniakwerk Merseburg |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown notgeld voucher with a decorative guilloche border incorporating rosette ornaments at the corners and midpoints. The issuer inscription in three lines reads BADISCHE ANILIN- & SODA-FABRIK / AMMONIAKWERK MERSEBURG / LEUNA-WERK KREIS MERSEBURG at the top, followed by the script legend Gutschein über and the large denomination numeral 1 set within a dark central medallion flanked by the word PFENNIG on each side. Below the denomination panel appears a handwritten authorization signature preceded by i.V., a printed serial number, and a cautionary clause regarding unredeemed notes. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-toned reverse enclosed within a matching guilloche frame with rosette ornaments at the four corners and along the borders, with denomination indicators 1 PFG. in each corner. The central field carries a full-text German redemption clause in roman type, setting out the conditions and time limit for encashment at the factory cashier's offices. |
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Ammoniakwerk Merseburg was a BASF subsidiary established to operate the synthetic ammonia plant built at Leuna during the First World War — one of the largest industrial complexes in Germany, running on the Haber-Bosch process and critical to wartime nitrogen production. Like many large industrial employers of the Weimar-era inflation period, BASF issued its own small-denomination notgeld to cover the chronic shortage of pfennig coinage that made paying daily wages practically impossible through conventional banking channels.
The Tieste Va classification places this firmly in the private industrial notgeld category rather than municipal emergency currency.