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1 Pfennig Sachsenwerk
| Issuer | Sachsenwerk, Niedersedlitz |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted save for an overall green geometric guilloche pattern of interlocking circular motifs on cream paper, covering the entire field without any text or vignette. The design serves purely as an anti-counterfeiting underprint ground, consistent with the economical emergency-currency production of the period. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Sachsenwerk was an electrical manufacturing company based in Niedersedlitz, near Dresden — one of thousands of German industrial firms that issued their own emergency small-change tokens in 1918 as the wartime coin shortage made even pfennig denominations impossible to source through normal channels. This note is factory scrip in the most literal sense: printed and redeemed entirely within a single employer's ecosystem, valid nowhere outside the plant gates.
Gross & Reuter, the local printer, handled much of the Niedersedlitz-area Notgeld output that year. The guilloche underprint is a modest anti-counterfeiting measure — somewhat optimistic for a 1-pfennig denomination, but consistent with how seriously some issuers treated even the smallest denominations.