Catalog
1 Pfennig Rheinische Dampfkessel- und Maschinenfabrik Büttner
| Issuer | Rheinische Dampfkessel- und Maschinenfabrik Büttner G.m.b.H. |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein No. über Einen Pfennig. Rheinische Dampfkessel- und Maschinenfabrik BÜTTNER G. m. b. H. Uerdingen a. Rhein. Nur für den Verkehr mit Kriegsgefangenen innerhalb des Werkes gültig. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for the bleed-through impression of the obverse text visible in mirror image through the thin paper stock, confirming the single-sided letterpress production of this emergency camp scrip issue. |
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Büttner GmbH was a Uerdingen-based manufacturer of steam boilers and industrial machinery — not a bank, not a municipality. During the acute small-change shortages of the early Weimar inflation period, hundreds of German industrial firms issued their own Notgeld simply to make payroll work. A pfennig note from a boiler factory is exactly that: a practical fix for a broken monetary system, issued for workers who needed change on payday and could spend it at the company canteen or with local merchants willing to accept it.
The Tieste catalogue reference places this within the private industrial Notgeld series for Uerdingen am Rhein.