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5 Pfennig H. Heye Glasfabrik Schauenstein
| Issuer | H. Heye Glasfabrik, Schauenstein bei Obernkirchen |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Light green-tinted Gutschein (emergency money voucher) with a fine guilloche underprint throughout. The denomination numeral '5' appears in white circles at left and right centre, flanked by a central diamond-shaped guilloche panel. The issuer's name in blackletter Gothic script is set in the upper portion, beneath a large 'Gutschein' heading, followed by multi-line redemption conditions in small Gothic text and a circular red embossed seal of the Glasfabrik at lower left. The note is dated 'Schauenstein, den 15. Juni 1917' and bears a manuscript signature preceded by 'ppa.' |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der H. Heye Glasfabrik, Schauenstein bei Obernkirchen über den Betrag von in Worten Fünf Pfennig. Dieser Gutschein wird allen Kaufberechtigten bei Einlieferung in meiner Konsum-Anstalt durch Verabfolgung von Waren oder, wenn im Betrage von 1 Mark auf einmal eingereicht, durch Auszahlung des Geldwertes in bar eingelöst. Derselbe verliert seine Gültigkeit, wenn er nicht spätestens 3 Monate nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufforderung zur Einlösung vorgezeigt wird. Schauenstein, den 15. Juni 1917. H. Heye Glasfabrik ppa. |
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German industrial notgeld from 1917 occupies a peculiar corner of emergency currency history. The Kriegswirtschaft had drained small-denomination coinage from circulation so thoroughly that private employers — factories, mines, cooperatives — were printing their own scrip to make change for wages. H. Heye Glasfabrik at Schauenstein bei Obernkirchen was among hundreds of industrial issuers that stepped into this vacuum, producing notes redeemable within their own commercial orbit rather than through any banking authority.
Schauenstein bei Obernkirchen was a small glassworks community in Lower Saxony. The note's survival in any form is largely a matter of chance — most factory scrip was redeemed and pulped once coin shortages eased after 1918.