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2 Pfennig Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen
| Issuer | Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on the same blue-grey stock within an identical chain-link ornamental border. The entire field is occupied by a five-line verse in Fraktur script, followed by a small decorative printer's flower centred below the text. |
| Reverse lettering | Wer ist ein freier Mann? Der das Gesetz verehret, Nichts tut, was es verwehret, Nichts will als was er kann; Der ist ein freier Mann! |
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Kalksandstein-Werke Milbertshofen was a sand-lime brick manufacturer operating on the northern fringe of Munich. Like hundreds of German industrial firms during the hyperinflation years of the early 1920s, it issued its own small-denomination notgeld to cover the chronic shortage of fractional coinage — state mints simply could not keep pace with the velocity at which metal's nominal value was being overtaken by inflation.
The blue-grey cardboard construction is typical of factory-floor emergency scrip: cheap to produce, legible enough, never meant to outlast the crisis.