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2 Pfennigs - Bremen Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger
| Issuer | Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger, Bremen |
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| Weight | 1.4 g |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc token with a raised pearl border following the outline of the flan. A circular inner ring of pearls encloses the large numeral '2' in the center of the field. The legend 'KAUFHAUS JULIUS BAMBERGER' arcs across the upper portion between the pearl border and the inner pearl circle, while '* BREMEN *' appears along the lower arc, with small decorative stars flanking the city name. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Julius Bamberger's department store in Bremen issued zinc notgeld tokens during the early 1920s when Germany's small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply outpaced by inflation. Retailers across Germany filled the gap with their own store tokens, redeemable only at the issuing merchant, which conveniently also drove foot traffic back to the shop.
The Hasselmann reference places this among documented Bremen private issues, a corpus that remains incompletely catalogued.