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5 Pfennigs - Bremen Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger
| Issuer | Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger, Bremen |
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| Diameter | 19.3 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | KAUFHAUS JULIUS BAMBERGER 5 BREMEN |
| Reverse description | Outer pearl border follows the octagonal flan, enclosing a twisted rope circle within which the large numeral '5' is centered in the field. The legend 'KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE' curves around the upper portion of the field between the pearl border and the rope ring, while three five-pointed stars are evenly spaced at the base of the design, serving as decorative stops. |
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Julius Bamberger's department store in Bremen was among the Jewish-owned retail businesses systematically targeted during the Nazi period. Like many such firms, it issued zinc token currency for internal use — canteen credit, staff purchases, or in-store scrip — a practice common among large German retailers in the Weimar and early Third Reich years. The store itself was seized during the wave of forced "Aryanization" of Jewish commercial property in the late 1930s.
Zinc was the material of choice for low-denomination commercial tokens by this period, cheap to produce and easily distinguished from Reich coinage.