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10 Pfennig Trachenberg; Kolonialwarenhändler
| Issuer | Einkaufs-Genossenschaft Trachenberger Kolonialwarenhändler e.G.m.H. zu Trachenberg |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green paper with black letterpress border of dashed rules and corner ornaments framing the face. Large Fraktur denomination 'Zehn Pfennige' dominates the centre, with issuer name in two lines below and two manuscript signatures flanking. Validity clause in small roman type at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Green screen-pattern underprint of small floral rosettes covers the entire field. A black letterpress border of dashed rules frames the design, with the town coat of arms — a shield bearing a fountain with a dragon — centred as a woodcut vignette flanked by the numeral '10' and 'Pfg.' twice. 'Gutschein über 10 Pfennig' appears below in Fraktur, with the printer's imprint at the very foot outside the border. |
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A grocery co-operative issuing its own emergency currency is not unusual for Weimar-era Notgeld, but this piece predates that better-known wave — it belongs to the earlier, grimmer phase of WWI shortages, when small trading associations across Germany and Austria-Hungary scrambled to facilitate local commerce as coin disappeared into hoarding and metal requisitions. The Einkaufs-Genossenschaft here was a purchasing syndicate of colonial goods dealers — "Kolonialwaren" meaning imported staples like sugar, coffee, and spices — bound together to pool buying power.
Hugo Ebnöther printed this in the same town of issue, Trachenberg in Silesia, keeping the entire operation local. Both signatories, Blumberg and Rauer, were almost certainly board members of the cooperative rather than banking officials.