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10 Pfennig Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke
| Issuer | Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke Aktien-Gesellschaft |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Purple-on-pale-pink letterpress note with an ornate guilloche border of repeating floral and geometric motifs, with denomination numeral '10' in each corner. The upper portion bears the full corporate title 'Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke Aktien-Gesellschaft' above 'WERK TROSTBERG (OBER-BAYERN)'. A central rectangular vignette in deep purple displays the value legend 'GUT FÜR ZEHN PFENNIG' flanked on each side by circular company monogram medallions bearing the initials 'B.St.W.' A vertical serial number appears at the right margin, with the issue date 'TROSTBERG, den 1. JULI 1919' and a three-line redemption clause printed below the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke Aktien-Gesellschaft WERK TROSTBERG (OBER-BAYERN) GUT FÜR ZEHN PFENNIG TROSTBERG, den 1. JULI 1919. Dieser Schein gilt nur als Zahlungsmittel im inneren fabrik- und Kantinen-Verkehr. Einlösung durch die Kassen des Werks. Scheine, bei denen die Nummer ganz oder teilweise fehlt, werden nicht eingelöst. Kein öffentliches Zahlungsmittel. |
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Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke was a nitrogen fixation plant established at Trostberg on the Alz river, built to produce synthetic nitrates — primarily for agricultural fertilizer, but the same chemistry served wartime explosives production. By 1919, with the German monetary system fragmenting and small-denomination coinage effectively vanishing from circulation, the company issued its own Notgeld to pay workers and facilitate transactions at the plant. This note is a product of industrial necessity, not municipal pride.
Factory-issued Notgeld from chemical and munitions-related works is less commonly catalogued than the decorative civic issues that dominated collector attention in the early 1920s.