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1 dollar villa venezia
| Issuer | Villa Venezia / Casanova Bar, Saarlouis, Germany |
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| Reverse description | Dark brown novelty note in dollar-bill style with matching baroque floral underprint. Central vignette bears the 'Casanova Bar' script logo beneath a fleur-de-lis ornament, flanked by vignettes of champagne bottles and glasses at left and right. 'DOLLAR' in large gold letters at the foot, with the address 'TABLEDANCE ZEPPELINSTR. 31' at lower left and 'SAARLOUIS TEL.: 06831-890 00 40' at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 one WWW.CASANOVABAR.DE 1 one Casanova Bar TABLEDANCE ZEPPELINSTR. 31 SAARLOUIS TEL.: 06831-890 00 40 DOLLAR |
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Villa Venezia and Casanova Bar were nightclub and entertainment venues operating in Saarlouis, a French-administered Saar Protectorate town that only rejoined West Germany following the 1955 referendum and formal reintegration in 1957. This one-dollar token note belongs to a category of privately issued scrip used by clubs and bars — often in border or garrison towns — to manage tab credit, facilitate transactions with foreign currency-holding clientele, or simply circumvent local cash-handling regulations. American military personnel stationed in the region were the obvious target demographic for dollar-denominated scrip of this kind.
No central bank sanctioned it. Its legal status was, at best, ambiguous.