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3 Rubel Port Kunda Zementfabrik
| Issuer | Tsemendivabriku Port-Kunda (Port-Kunda Cement Factory) |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 3 Rubel |
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| Reverse description | Green text on gray paper, with bilingual conditions of use printed in parallel German and Estonian columns across the full width of the note. Four numbered clauses on each side detail validity, extension procedures, interest-free status until 1 January 1942, and acceptance as legal tender equivalent to Soviet ruble notes. Extension signature lines for the cashier (Kassierer / Laekur) are provided for November, December 1941 and January 1942, accompanied by a circular factory stamp impression in violet ink. |
| Reverse lettering | Dieser Kreditschein hat Gültigkeit bis zum 1. Oktober 1941 und kann von der Verwaltung der Zementfabrik vertagt werden bis zum 1. Januar 1942. Eine jedesmalige Vertagung um einen Monat wird vom Kassierer der Zementfabrik mit seinem Namenszug und dem Fabriksstempel bestätigt. Bis zum 1. Januar 1942 ist dieser Kreditschein zinzlos. Bis zum Datum der Gültigkeit wird dieser Kreditschein von der Zementfabrik `Port-Kunda` als vollwertiges Zahlungsmittel gleichwertig den Geldscheinen der UdSSR bei jeglicher Zahlung angenommen. Verwaltung der Zementfabrik `PORT-KUNDA` Vertagt bis zum 1. November 1941 Kassierer Vertagt bis zum 1. Dezember 1941 Kassierer Vertagt bis zum 1. Januar 1942 Kassierer See võlatähik on kehtiv kuni 1. oktoobrini 1941, kuid tsemendivabriku valitsus võib ta kehtivuse pikendada kuni 1. jaanuarini 1942. Igakordset pikendust ühe kuu võrra kinnitab Tsemendivabriku laekur oma allkirja ja vabriku templiga. Kuni 1. jaanuarini 1942 on see võlatähik protsendivaba. Kuni kehtivuse tähtpäevani võtab Tsemendivabriku `Port-Kunda` selle tähiku ettenäitajalt vastu täisväärtuelise maksuvahendina augustuse maksimiste puhul üheväärtruseliselt NSVL-u rublatähikutega. Tsemendivabriku `PORT-KUNDA` Valitsus A/S. Tsemendivabriku PORT-KUNDA Pikendatud 1. novembrini 1941. Laekur Pikendatud 1. detsembrini 1941 Laekur Pikendatud 1. jaanuarini 1942 Laekur |
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Port-Kunda, on Estonia's northern coast, was occupied by German forces in August 1941 following the Wehrmacht's rapid advance through the Baltic states. This note was issued by the cement factory at Port-Kunda as an internal scrip — a necessity when official currency supply collapsed or became administratively chaotic during the transition from Soviet to German occupation. Factory scrip of this kind filled gaps that neither occupying authority was prepared to address immediately.
Estonian cement factory emergency notes from 1941 are among the rarest locally issued occupation-period pieces. The Port-Kunda facility itself had been nationalized under Soviet rule in 1940, making the provenance of any issuing authority during 1941 genuinely ambiguous.