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50 Pfennigs - Bremen Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger
| Issuer | Kaufhaus Julius Bamberger, Bremen |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Reverse lettering | KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE 50 * * * |
| Edge | Plain |
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Julius Bamberger's department store in Bremen was one of the larger Jewish-owned retail operations in northern Germany. Like many German businesses during the severe coin shortages of World War I and its aftermath, Bamberger issued zinc Notgeld tokens for use within the store — a pragmatic response to the near-total disappearance of small change from circulation as metal was diverted to the war effort and hoarding stripped the retail economy of workable coinage.
The Hasselmann reference places this squarely within the documented Bremen private issues, a collector category that remains underappreciated relative to the municipal Notgeld series.