2 Pfennig J. Berner

J. Berner was one of hundreds of German retailers and small businesses that issued their own low-denomination emergency paper during the Kleingeldnot — the small-change shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward as metal coinage disappeared from circulation. These privately issued Notgeld pieces were technically illegal tender beyond the issuing premises but were accepted locally out of sheer necessity. Fürth, as an industrial town adjacent to Nuremberg, had no shortage of such issuers.

The Tieste Va classification places this within the early private retail category. No surviving quantity data is reliably documented for this specific piece.