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1 Pfennig - Bremen Bremer Lagerh. Ges.
| Issuer | Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft (Bremen Warehouse Company) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays an outer pearl border surrounding a circular legend divided by six small star ornaments, with 'ERSATZ' inscribed at the top and 'MARKE' at the bottom. An inner rope circle encloses the central field, which bears the interlaced monogram 'BLG' — the initials of the Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft — rendered in a decorative, overlapping serif style. The overall composition follows the standard format of German emergency substitute tokens (Ersatzmarken) issued during the inflationary period. |
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The Bremer Lagerhaus-Gesellschaft was founded in 1877 to manage Bremen's expanding port warehouse infrastructure — a direct consequence of Germany's rapid commercial growth following unification. Iron notgeld tokens like this one were issued by industrial and logistics firms during World War I and the years immediately following, when copper and other non-ferrous metals were requisitioned for the war effort and small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Workers needed something to make change.
Iron was a poor substitute — it corrodes readily in the damp warehouse environment where these tokens circulated daily.