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1 Pfennig Verein für Handel und Gewerbe
| Issuer | Verein für Handel und Gewerbe, Hohen Neuendorf |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Verein für Handel u. Gewerbe 1 Hohen Neuendorf (Translation: Association for Trade and Commerce 1 Hohen Neuendorf) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream paper with a faint impression of the obverse design visible in blind relief through the thin stock. A simple ruled rectangular border is lightly discernible, consistent with the single-sided letterpress production typical of German notgeld of this period. |
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Verein für Handel und Gewerbe — loosely, a trade and commerce association — was one of countless local merchant guilds that began issuing small-denomination Notgeld during the First World War when low-value coins vanished from circulation almost overnight. Hohen Neuendorf, a small town north of Berlin on the Kremmener Bahn line, was precisely the kind of community where such a body would step in to keep petty transactions moving when the Reichsbank couldn't supply enough metal coinage.
The Tieste Va classification indicates this belongs to the documented Notgeld corpus, though survivor numbers for hyper-local 1 Pfennig issues from minor issuers remain thin.