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1 Pfennig Kreuz-Drogerie Pester
| Issuer | C. Richard Pester, Kreuz-Drogerie, Chemnitz |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue-black on pink cardboard, the obverse carries the denomination '1 Pfennig' in large Gothic letterpress at the top, flanked by numeral '1' repetitions in the side margins. Below, the issuer name 'C. RICHARD PESTER' is set in bold sans-serif capitals, centered across the width. A vignette of the shopfront facade at Bernsdorferstrasse 21–23 occupies the central band, rendered in a simple architectural line illustration. At the foot of the note, the validity clause and a hand-stamped serial number appear within a ruled lower panel. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain pink cardboard with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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A Kleingeldersatz — small change substitute — issued by C. Richard Pester's Kreuz-Drogerie pharmacy in Chemnitz during the acute coin shortage of the early 1920s. German retailers at every level, from department stores to corner shops, were legally permitted to issue their own fractional cardboard tokens when Reichsmünzen simply vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted as inflation eroded their face value faster than the Reichsbank could replace them.
Tieste catalogs hundreds of Chemnitz issues from this period; Pester's single-pfennig piece on pink stock is among the more modest entries — one denomination, one establishment, no series variants recorded.