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1 Pfennig Henschel and Sohn
| Issuer | Henschel & Sohn, Hattingen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Circular notgeld token in brown-pink cardboard. The denomination '1 Pfg.' is printed in large Gothic script at the centre, flanked on each side by small rectangular guilloche ornaments. The issuer's name 'Henschel & Sohn' arcs across the upper portion in bold Gothic lettering, while the lower arc carries the inscription 'Notgeld Ausgabe' (emergency currency issue) in matching script, with additional text in the centre field. |
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| Obverse lettering | Henschel & Sohn 1 Pfg. Notgeld Ausgabe |
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Henschel & Sohn was a major iron and steel producer based in Hattingen on the Ruhr, and like hundreds of German industrial firms during the First World War emergency coinage shortage, it issued its own small-denomination Notgeld to pay workers when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation. Cardboard Pfennig pieces of this type were produced quickly and cheaply — they were never meant to outlast the shortage that created them.
The Tieste catalogue reference places this firmly within the documented Westphalian private industrial issues, a densely catalogued field where genuine pieces and later reprints can be difficult to separate without examining paper stock and printing impression closely.