Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Pfennig Molkerei-Genossenschaft
| Issuer | Molkerei-Genossenschaft Bevensen |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 5 Pfennigs (5 Pfennige) (0.05) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Light blue-green paper with rounded corners, printed in black. The issuer name appears in Gothic (Fraktur) typeface at the top. A circular floral wreath vignette occupies the centre of the note, enclosing the large numeral "5" above the denomination text in Fraktur script. The validity legend is printed in bold Gothic lettering along the lower margin within a double-ruled rectangular border. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Molkerei-Genossenschaft Bevensen 5 Pfennig Gültig bis 31. Dezember 1921 |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Bevensen's dairy cooperative issued this note during the great small-change famine of the early Weimar inflation years, when metal coinage had all but vanished from everyday commerce and thousands of local bodies — municipalities, guilds, cooperatives — stepped in with their own emergency scrip. The Molkerei-Genossenschaft was not a bank; it was a milk producer's collective, and its willingness to back paper with dairy credit tells you something about how completely the normal monetary machinery had seized up by 1921.
Notgeld of this size and origin survives largely because collectors swept it up almost immediately — the hobby was running parallel to the crisis in real time.