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1 Pfennig Rheinische Dampfkessel- und Maschinenfabrik Büttner
| Issuer | Rheinische Dampfkessel- und Maschinenfabrik Büttner G.m.b.H. |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green note of utilitarian letterpress design, enclosed within a double rectangular border with stylised pipe-joint corner ornaments. The denomination numeral '1' appears in each of the four inner corners alongside the abbreviation 'Pfg.', while the central text block carries the voucher heading, the issuer's full name and place of issue, a series of horizontal ruling lines, and a restriction notice at the foot of the note. No pictorial vignette or guilloche underprint is present. |
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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. |
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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.