2 Pfennigs - Bremen Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger

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.