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20 Mark Frankfurter Maschinenbau
| Issuer | Frankfurter Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Pokorny & Wittekind |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The face of this Notgeld gutschein is printed in black letterpress on white paper with a pale rose-brown guilloche underprint incorporating large stylized monogram letters. The note is divided into three vertical panels by ruled lines: the left and right panels each carry the denomination in large bold type reading 'Gut für 20.- Mark, in Worten Zwanzig Mark', while the central panel bears the voucher text, the red typeset serial number, the place and date of issue 'Frankfurt a. M., 1 November 1918', the issuer's name 'Frankfurter Maschinenbau-Akt.-Ges. vorm. Pokorny & Wittekind', and a manuscript signature of an authorized company officer. The entire design is enclosed within a decorative scrollwork border. |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein No. Gut für 20.- Mark, in Worten Zwanzig Mark für dessen Wiedereinlösung nach Maßgabe der in den Verkehr kommenden gesetzlichen Zahlungsmitteln wir bürgen. Frankfurt a. M., 1 November 1918. Frankfurter Maschinenbau-Akt.-Ges. vormals Pokorny & Wittekind |
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Frankfurter Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft — the Frankfurt engineering firm that traced its roots to the Pokorny & Wittekind foundry — issued this note during the acute small-change crisis of 1918, when the wartime metal shortage had stripped German circulation of virtually all low-denomination coinage. These Notgeld emissions by private industrial firms were technically illegal under Reichsbank statutes but were tolerated as a practical necessity, particularly in factory towns where paying weekly wages in exact amounts had become logistically impossible.
The firm's full pre-merger name appears on the note as a deliberate assertion of corporate continuity during a period of considerable economic instability.