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½ Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Memel (City Treasury of Memel) |
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| Size | 95 x 62 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Reihe A № Gutschein der Stadtkasse Memel. Eine halbe ½ Mark Der Magistrat der Stadt Memel. |
| Reverse description | Plain paper ground with a light green underprint, enclosed by the same decorative foliate border as the obverse. A rectangular panel formed by geometric interlocking ornamental frames in black letterpress occupies the centre, within which the denomination 'Eine halbe ½ Mark' is repeated in red Fraktur script. A validity clause is printed in Gothic type across the upper field, and a territorial restriction notice appears along the lower margin. |
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Memel — the city now known as Klaipėda — occupied a uniquely contested position in the early 1920s. Detached from Germany by the Versailles Treaty and administered by France from 1920, it was seized by Lithuanian irregular forces in January 1923. Local notgeld like this Stadtkasse issue filled a genuine currency vacuum during the French administration period, when the city's monetary status was unresolved and Reichsmark supply was officially severed.
The Stadtkasse series is modest in ambition — emergency municipal scrip, not a prestige printing. Surviving examples frequently show the horizontal fold lines common to notes stored in municipal cashier drawers rather than circulated through retail trade.