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20 Pfennig Saccharin-Fabrik AG
| Issuer | Saccharin-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft, vorm. Fahlberg, List & Co., Magdeburg-Südost |
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| Size | 110 × 47 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Saccharin-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Fahlberg, List & Co., Magdeburg-Südost 20 GUT FÜR 20 PFENNIG Nur gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb des Fabrikbetriebes Einlösung bei der Hauptkasse |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream-coloured paper forms the ground of this typographically austere reverse. The issuer's name is set in bold blackletter type across the top, followed by the validity legend 'Gut für 20 Pfennig' centred on the note with the large numeral '20' flanked by the words 'Gut für' and 'Pfennig'. The company's former trading style and location, 'vorm. Fahlberg, List & Co., Magdeburg-Südost.', appear in smaller blackletter type at the foot. |
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Saccharin-Fabrik AG was the corporate successor to the company founded by Constantin Fahlberg, who discovered saccharin in 1879 while working at Johns Hopkins — famously noticing the sweetness on his hands after a lab session. By the early Weimar inflation years, the Magdeburg-Südost plant was issuing its own notgeld to keep workers paid as the banking system buckled under hyperinflation.
Corporate notgeld from industrial issuers like this one was frequently redeemed only at company facilities, functioning more like scrip than currency. The "vorm." — vormals, meaning "formerly" — in the full corporate name signals the post-Fahlberg reorganization, a detail that helps narrow the issue date to the early 1920s.