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5 Pfennig Saccharin-Fabrik AG
| Issuer | Saccharin-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Fahlberg, List & Co., Magdeburg-Südost |
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| Size | 108 × 36 mm |
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| Obverse description | Elongated rectangular notgeld coupon printed in dark brown on a light grey underprint, enclosed within an elaborate green guilloche border composed of interlocking rosettes and fine lace-like ornamental bands running along all four edges. The denomination numeral '5' appears in large bold Fraktur type on both the left and right flanks, each accompanied by the text 'GUT FÜR' above and 'PFENNIG' below. The central field carries the issuer's name in Fraktur script across two lines, followed by a validity clause and redemption instruction in smaller italic type. |
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| Obverse lettering | GUT FÜR 5 PFENNIG Gutschein der Saccharin-Fabrik Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Fahlberg, List & Co. Magdeburg-Südost. Nur gültig für den Geldverkehr innerhalb des Fabrikbetriebes. Einlösung bei der Hauptkasse. |
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Saccharin-Fabrik AG was one of the industrial giants of Wilhelmine Germany — the Magdeburg-Südost plant had been churning out artificial sweetener since Fahlberg's original patents in the 1880s, and by the Notgeld period it was large enough to issue its own emergency scrip to pay workers when small-change coin had effectively vanished from circulation. This is private industrial Notgeld, not municipal, which makes it a narrower issue: it circulated within a specific factory payroll ecosystem rather than across a town's retail economy.
The extreme dimensions — nearly three times as long as wide — are unusual even within the eccentrically varied Notgeld format world, and almost certainly served as a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure on a low-denomination note where engraving costs would have been minimal.