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 Rubel Port Kunda Zementfabrik
| Issuer | Zementfabrik Port-Kunda (Port-Kunda Cement Factory) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 20. august 1941. KREDITSCHEIN DER ZEMENTFABRIK `PORT-KUNDA` FÜNF RUBEL Gültig im Bereiche der Zementfabrik `PORT-KUNDA` Die Verwaltung der Zementfabrik `Port-Kunda` PRIMA PORTLAND CEMENT PORT-KUNDA 5 RUB. Kassierer Laekur 20. augustil 1941. TSEMENDIVABRIKU `PORT-KUNDA` VÕLATÄHIK VIIS RUBLA Kehtiv Ts… |
| 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 | Circular blue ink factory stamp of the Zementfabrik Port-Kunda applied to the reverse. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Port-Kunda, on Estonia's northern coast, was occupied by German forces in late summer 1941. The cement factory — one of the oldest in the Baltic region, established in the 1870s — continued operating under occupation, and this scrip was almost certainly issued to pay local workers when Reichskreditkassenscheine were in short supply or deemed impractical for small internal transactions. Factory-issued currency of this kind was technically illegal under German occupation monetary policy, which makes its survival worth noting.
The official stamp substitutes for any formal security printing. Scrip from Estonian industrial facilities during the 1941–1944 occupation is genuinely rare; most was redeemed, destroyed, or simply lost.