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1 Pfennig Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen
| Issuer | Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOT-KLEIN-GELD der Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen Wert 1 Pfennig Diese Marke dient nur als Zahlmittel in unserer Kantine. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wer ist ein freier Mann? Wer offen Wort kann hören, Ohn' Rache gleich zu schwören, Den Gegner dulden kann; Der ist ein freier Mann! |
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Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen was a sand-lime brick manufacturer operating in what was then a northern industrial suburb of Munich — Milbertshofen had not yet been absorbed into the city proper. This note belongs to the vast German Notgeld phenomenon of 1920–1921, when coin shortages became severe enough that private firms, municipalities, and cooperatives began issuing their own fractional emergency currency to make change for workers and customers.
A brick factory issuing 1-Pfennig notes is among the more prosaic examples of the genre. No elaborate artwork, no collector appeal driving a second print run — this was functional workplace scrip, almost certainly redeemed quickly and discarded.