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50 Pfennig Einswarden, J. Frerichs
| Issuer | J. Frerichs & Co. Actiengesellschaft |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic maritime vignette occupies the lower half of the reverse, with a striped lighthouse at left, a fully rigged sailing vessel at right, and open water between them beneath a lightly ruled sky; a company pennant or flag is illustrated to the upper left. A central bordered text panel contains seven lines of Low German verse celebrating the Butjadingen region, set in a script typeface. The header inscription across the top names the two Frerichs facilities at Einswarden and Brake. |
| Reverse lettering | frerichswerft Einswarden / frerichsdock Brake Wennt Water hen nah See to geit, Wenns abends de Bätklock klingt, Wennt ruschelt dör dat hoge Reit, Un wenn de Lauerk singt, Denn singt un klingt dat unnern Heben, Hurra Butjarland, du schast leben! Hurra Butjarland! Hurra Butjarland. |
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J. Frerichs & Co. was a shipbuilding firm operating on the Weser estuary near Nordenham — the kind of industrial employer that, during the early Weimar inflation years, found itself unable to source adequate small denomination coinage to pay its workforce. Notgeld like this filled that gap directly at the factory level, issued by the company itself rather than any municipal authority. Circulation was essentially captive: workers received it, local shops accepted it out of necessity, and it rarely traveled far.
The watermarked paper is worth noting — most emergency industrial scrip of this period skipped security features entirely. That Frerichs bothered suggests either available stock or a concern about internal counterfeiting.