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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 description | Dark brownish-purple letterpress printing on grey paper with a pale green central underprint. An ornate guilloche border frames the entire note, with interlocking foliate and geometric motifs. The denomination numeral '20' appears in large bold type within dark rectangular cartouches at left and right, with 'GUT FÜR' and 'PFENNIG' inscribed vertically and horizontally around them; the centre carries the issuer's name and validity clause in a decorative blackletter script. |
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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 |
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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.