Catalog
1 Pfennig Bezirks-Konsumverein
| Issuer | Bezirks-Konsumverein Lörrach |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet-purple on plain paper stock, the note is enclosed within a decorative typographic border composed of repetitive ornamental units. The title legend "Waren=Bezugsschein" is set in Gothic blackletter type at the top, with the large numeral "1" centred between two matching square vignettes bearing the monogram "BKV" within a diamond cartouche and the founding year legend below. The issuer's name "Bezirks=Konsumverein Lörrach" appears in Gothic script below the denomination, followed by three manuscript signatures; a serial number preceded by asterisks is printed vertically along the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Waren=Bezugsschein Pfg. 1 Pfg. Bezirks=Konsumverein Lörrach BKV No 089058 |
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Bezirks-Konsumverein Lörrach was a district consumer cooperative in Baden, and like hundreds of similar organizations across Germany, it issued its own small-denomination scrip during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of the early Weimar period, when coin shortages made fractional transactions nearly impossible. These cooperative notgelds occupy an odd legal and economic space — neither municipal nor banking instruments, but accepted within the cooperative's own retail network as a substitute for pfennig coinage that simply wasn't circulating.
Lörrach's proximity to the Swiss border may have accelerated local coin hoarding, a well-documented phenomenon in German border towns during 1918–1922.