Catalog
1 Pfennig F. Hessenland
| Issuer | F. Hessenland G.m.b.H, Stettin |
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| Size | 55 × 38 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein über 1 Pfennig F. Hessenland G.m.b.H |
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| Reverse lettering | F. Hessenland Gesellschaft mit bes.Hr. Haftung STETTIN |
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Stettin-based emergency money from the notgeld period, issued by a private commercial firm rather than a municipality or savings bank — an issuer type that often gets overlooked in favor of the more collectible town series. F. Hessenland G.m.b.H. was a retail business, and notes like this circulated internally or locally to ease the chronic small-change shortage that plagued German commerce from 1916 onward.
The Tieste reference places this in the Pomeranian commercial notgeld cataloguing, a category where surviving examples are genuinely scarce simply because no one thought to preserve shop scrip.