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1 Pfennig Fokker-Flugzeugwerke
| Issuer | Fokker-Flugzeugwerke M.B.H., Schwerin |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress on a grey guilloche underprint; the issuer's name FOKKER-FLUGZEUGWERKE M.B.H. SCHWERIN MECKL. is set in bold capitals across the top, above a central ornate diamond-shaped frame enclosing the white numeral 1 on a dark ground flanked by the denomination EIN PFENNIG, with intricate rosette ornaments at each corner. The date SCHWERIN, MECKL., den 1. April 1917 and the manuscript signature of Die Direktion appear in the lower centre, followed by a four-line redemption clause in small italic text. A vertical serial number panel occupies the right margin, while the legend Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel runs vertically along the left border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain cream-white paper surface devoid of any text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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Fokker-Flugzeugwerke issued this 1 Pfennig notgeld at its Schwerin factory during a period when the Reichsbank's inability to supply adequate small coinage had become a genuine industrial problem. Workers needed change for canteen purchases and minor transactions; without it, payroll logistics broke down. Factory-issued scrip was the practical solution, redeemable only within the company's own premises and theoretically worthless outside them.
Fokker's Schwerin plant was producing combat aircraft for the German military throughout this period — the same facility responsible for the Fokker Dr.I triplane and its predecessors. The mundane economics of feeding and paying a wartime workforce produced this note.