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2 Mark Einswarden; Frerichswerft
| Issuer | J. Frerichs & Co. Aktiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 2 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein Nr. Gegen Rückgabe dieses Gutscheins zahlt unsere Kasse ohne Legitimationsprüfung dem Einlieferer M. 2.—. (Zwei Mark.) J. Frerichs & Co. Aktiengesellschaft ppa. Einswarden, den ........................ 1914. (Translation: Voucher No. Upon return of this voucher, our cash desk will pay the depositor M. 2.- (Two Marks) without verification of identity J. Frerichs & Co. Corporation ppa. Einswarden, the ........................ 1914.) |
| Reverse description | Entirely plain buff-toned paper reverse with no printed design, text, or ornamentation, enclosed only by a faint single-line border. |
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J. Frerichs & Co. was a shipyard on the Weser, and like hundreds of German industrial firms in late 1914, it issued its own emergency small-change notes — Notgeld — when metal coinage disappeared almost overnight into hoarding and wartime metal requisitions. These early 1914 issues predate the more systematic municipal Notgeld programs; they were essentially payroll instruments, circulating among workers and local merchants who had no other way to make change.
The shipyard's notes rarely traveled far from Einswarden.