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5 Pfennig Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke
| Issuer | Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke Aktien-Gesellschaft, Werk Trostberg |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed notgeld on cream paper in green and black, with a decorative guilloche border incorporating stylized floral motifs and the denomination numeral '5' in each corner medallion. The central panel carries the text 'GUT FÜR FÜNF PFENNIG' in bold display lettering, flanked by circular monogram cartouches bearing the initials 'B.St.W.' A vertical serial number runs along the right margin, with three lines of redemption clause text and the date line 'TROSTBERG, den 1. JULI 1919.' printed below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, consisting of plain cream paper stock; faint show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is visible in mirror image, including the central 'FÜNF PFENNIG' text and the flanking 'B.St.W.' monogram cartouches. |
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Bayerische Stickstoff-Werke was a synthetic nitrogen fixation plant in Trostberg, Bavaria — one of several industrial facilities that issued its own emergency currency (Notgeld) in 1919 when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from everyday trade. The plant's workers needed change; the Reichsbank couldn't supply it; the company printed its own. This was not unusual for 1919 Bavaria, but factory-issued Notgeld is considerably less common in surviving collections than the municipal variety.
Trostberg's nitrogen works had been producing ammonia via the cyanamide process since before the First World War, largely for agricultural fertilizers — a sector that kept operating even as the war economy collapsed around it.