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5 Pfennigs - Bremen Heymann & Neumann
| Issuer | Heymann & Neumann (Bremen) |
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| Year | ND (1918-1922) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Octagonal zinc notgeld token with a plain raised rim enclosing a ring of small raised dots forming an inner border. The issuer's name HEYMANN & NEUMANN arcs across the upper field in bold raised Latin capitals, flanked at lower left and right by raised six-pointed stars, with the city name BREMEN displayed across the lower field. At centre, the large numeral 5 is prominently raised within the dotted inner circle, denoting the token's denomination. |
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| Obverse lettering | HEYMANN & NEUMANN 5 BREMEN |
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Heymann & Neumann was a Bremen-based wholesale textile firm that issued this notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — a shortage so severe that hundreds of private companies, municipalities, and cooperatives were effectively forced into the business of minting their own emergency currency. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort years earlier.
The undated span covering 1918–1922 reflects how long the underlying conditions persisted well past the Armistice.