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10 Pfennig Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen
| Issuer | Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen |
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| Value | 10 Pfennigs (10 Pfennige) (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Cream-coloured paper with the same interlaced decorative border as the obverse. The entire field is occupied by a five-line verse in blackletter (Fraktur) script, centred on the note, followed by a small floral typographic ornament at the foot. No denomination or issuer identification appears on this side. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer ist ein freier Mann? Der auch in einem heiden Den Menschen unterscheiden, Die Tugend schätzen kann; Der ist ein freier Mann! |
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Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen was a sand-lime brick manufacturer operating on the northern edge of Munich — Milbertshofen being the industrial district later absorbed into greater Munich and notorious in darker history as the site of a wartime forced-labor camp. This 10 Pfennig note is a piece of Notgeld, the emergency small-change currency issued by German municipalities, businesses, and institutions during the acute coin shortages of 1914–1923. A brickworks issuing its own scrip is unremarkable for the period; hundreds of industrial firms did the same.
What makes factory-issued Notgeld interesting is the closed-loop economy it implies — workers paid partly in company scrip redeemable only at company-approved outlets.