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200 000 Mark Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken
| Issuer | Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken A.G., Werk Oberbruch |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Green emergency note (Notgeld) printed in letterpress on plain paper, with a central vignette of the Oberbruch factory complex — industrial buildings with chimneys rendered in a landscape format within a rectangular frame. The denomination 'Zweihunderttausend Mark' is printed in large bold type across the vignette, with the word 'Gutschein' above and 'Mark' below. Serial number prefix 'Vw24' appears at upper left and the numeral '200000' at upper right; the issuance text and date 'Oberbruch, den 10. August 1923' appear in the lower portion, followed by two manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | 200000 Gutschein. Zweihunderttausend Mark zahlt gegen diesen Gutschein dem Einlieferer die Firma "Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken A.G.", Werk Oberbruch. Dieser Gutschein muß innerhalb 4 Wochen nach dem Ausstellungsdatum eingelöst werden. Mit dem Ablauf seiner Einlösungsfrist verliert er seine Gültigkeit. Oberbruch, den 10. August 1923. (Kreis Heinsberg, Bez. Aachen.) Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken A.-G., Werk Oberbruch. (Translation: 200,000 Voucher. Two hundred thousand marks will be paid to the bearer in exchange for this voucher by the company "Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken A.G.", Oberbruch plant. This voucher must be redeemed within 4 weeks of the date of issue. It loses its validity upon expiration of the redemption period. Oberbruch, 10 August 1923. (Heinsberg district, Aachen region.) Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken A.G., Oberbruch plant.) |
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Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken was a major synthetic fibre manufacturer — one of the precursors to what eventually became Enka and later part of the Akzo Nobel industrial group. During the hyperinflation of 1923, German private firms, municipalities, and utilities issued their own notgeld simply because the Reichsbank could not print legal tender fast enough to meet payroll. This note from the Oberbruch works is that kind of emergency wage currency, designed to get money into workers' hands on payday rather than as any broader circulating medium.
Factory-issued notgeld of this type rarely traveled far from the issuing plant and was typically redeemed quickly, which makes survivors somewhat scarcer than equivalent municipal issues.