2 Pfennigs - Bremen Heymann & Neumann

Heymann & Neumann was a Bremen textile and department store firm that issued notgeld during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward, as wartime metal requisitions stripped zinc, copper, and nickel from everyday circulation. Private merchants across Germany filled the vacuum themselves — hundreds of firms did the same — but Bremen's commercial sector was particularly active given its trading economy and dense retail base. This piece corresponds to the second die variety catalogued by Hasselmann, distinguishable from the first by minor typographic differences.