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1 Pfennig Chr Büttner
| Issuer | Chr Büttner, Fürth (Bavaria) |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff paper note with a single rectangular black letterpress border. The numeral "1" appears at the top centre, followed by the denomination "Pfennig" in blackletter script, the issuer name "Chr Büttner" in bold blackletter, and the address "Königstr. 70" below, all centrally aligned within the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Pfennig Chr Büttner Königstr. 70 |
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Chr. Büttner was one of dozens of Fürth-based merchants and businesses that issued small-denomination Kleingeldersatz — emergency small change — during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany from around 1916 onward, when metal was prioritized for the war effort and pfennig coinage effectively vanished from circulation. These private merchant notes, catalogued under the Tieste system, were technically illegal under imperial currency law but were tolerated by local authorities out of sheer practical necessity.
The Tieste Va series designation places this among the privately issued Bavarian commercial scrip. Büttner's issues are genuinely scarce in the secondary market — small merchant notes from provincial Fürth rarely survived in quantity.