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1 Pfennig Uerdingen; P. Schwengers Söhne G.m.b.H.
| Issuer | P. Schwengers Söhne G.m.b.H., Zucker-Raffinerie, Uerdingen a. Rhein |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (0.01) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 1 Gutschein No. 1604 über Einen Pfennig. P. Schwengers Söhne G. m. b. H. Zucker-Raffinerie. Uerdingen a. Rhein Pfg. Pfg. 1 1 Nur für den Verkehr mit Kriegsgefangenen innerhalb des Werkes gültig. |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, showing plain white paper stock with faint show-through of the obverse letterpress impression and minor soiling consistent with circulation. |
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Issued by a private sugar refinery on the Rhine, this is a piece of Notgeld — emergency small-denomination scrip printed by German businesses during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. P. Schwengers Söhne's refinery at Uerdingen issued these notes for internal use, almost certainly to pay workers in fractional denominations when pfennig coins had effectively vanished from circulation by 1917–1918.
Factory-issued Notgeld rarely traveled far. Most were redeemed quickly within the issuing company's own wage and canteen system, which makes surviving examples genuinely uncommon compared to municipal issues.