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1 Pfennig v. Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel
| Issuer | v. Bodelschwinghsche Anstalten Bethel (Hauptkassen-Verwaltung Bethel) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Hauptkassen-Verwaltung Bethel für einen Pfennig |
| Reverse description | Plain white reverse with a faint green underprint impression of the obverse design showing through the thin paper stock, including the ghost image of the central oval cartouche and decorative border; no additional printed text or design elements are present. |
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Bethel, the vast diaconal colony near Bielefeld founded by Friedrich von Bodelschwingh Sr. in 1867, issued its own internal currency throughout the Weimar inflation period to manage transactions within its self-contained community of epilepsy patients, staff, and workers. These notes circulated exclusively on the Bethel campus — they had no legal tender status anywhere else and were redeemable only through the institution's own cashier administration, the Hauptkassen-Verwaltung.
The 1 Pfennig denomination is the smallest in the Bethel notgeld series, which itself says something about the purchasing conditions inside the colony at this particular moment — before hyperinflation had made fractions of a mark irrelevant.