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5 Pfennig Konsumverein für Magdeburg und Umgebung
| Issuer | Konsumverein für Magdeburg und Umgebung, e.G.m.b.H. |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-coloured card with a repeated small circular guilloche underprint across the entire face. A bold rectangular border frames the central text block, within which the issuer name appears at the top in Gothic letterpress script, followed by the large word 'Wechselmarke' in a heavy display typeface. The denomination numeral '5' is set to the right alongside the word 'Wert', and a serial number is printed in the lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Konsumverein für Magdeburg und Umg., e. G.m.b.H. Wechselmarke Wert 5 (Translation: Consumers' Cooperative for Magdeburg and the Surrounding Area. Registered Cooperative with Limited Liability. Exchange token. Value 5 pfennig.) |
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Konsumvereine — cooperative consumer societies — became significant local issuers of small-denomination scrip during the material shortages of the First World War, when coin metal was diverted to military production. This Magdeburg cooperative's 5 Pfennig piece is exactly that kind of instrument: internal scrip designed to facilitate transactions among members when official coinage had effectively vanished from retail circulation. The issuer, registered as an eingetragene Genossenschaft mit beschränkter Haftpflicht, was one of hundreds of such bodies across Germany that filled the gap between 1916 and 1921.
Cardboard notgeld of this type survives erratically — cooperative scrip was not archived with the care given to municipal issues.