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3 Pfennigs Albert Petersdorf
| Issuer | Albert Petersdorf (Cottbus, Prussian province of Brandenburg) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) (0.03) |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-orange card stock with a centrally applied oval rubber-stamp impression in violet ink. The stamp carries the issuer name along the upper arc, the denomination numeral and abbreviation at centre, and the place name with date along the lower arc. |
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| Reverse description | Blank salmon-orange card stock with no printed or stamped elements; the reverse is entirely unprinted. |
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Albert Petersdorf was a Cottbus-based merchant or tradesman who issued this note during the Kleingeldersatz crisis of 1920, when coin shortages across Weimar Germany prompted thousands of private businesses, municipalities, and cooperatives to print their own fractional emergency currency — Notgeld. At 3 Pfennig, this is an unusually low denomination even within that context; most private issuers targeted 5, 10, and 25 Pfennig values where the coin shortage actually bit hardest.
The Tieste catalogue reference places it firmly within the Brandenburg private issuer series, but Petersdorf remains an obscure name with no surviving commercial records of note.