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1 Mark Kultur und Sportwoche Hamburg
| Issuer | Hamburg, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 12.-24. AUGUST 1921 KULTUR U. SPORT-WOCHE HAMBURG DIESER GUTSCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT WENN ER NICHT BIS ZUM 1. OKTOBER 1921 BEI DER GESCHÄFTSSTELLE DER KULTUR u. SPORT WOCHE HAPAG NEU-BAU EINGELÖST IST. AUSGABE B DIE GESCHÄFTSFÜHRUNG COUTINHO u. MEYER HAMBURG |
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| Reverse lettering | Seefahrt ist not! Deutschlands Handels-Flagge sei schwarz-weiss-rot! |
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Hamburg's 1921 Kultur und Sportwoche notgeld was issued specifically to commemorate a municipal cultural and sports festival — one of several German cities that used the postwar notgeld phenomenon not merely to address coin shortages but as a deliberate promotional exercise. The City of Hamburg contracted Coutinho u. Meyer, a local Hamburg printer, keeping the entire production within the city.
The watermarked paper is notable for a notgeld of this type. Most festival-issue emergency currency of the period skipped security features entirely, treating the notes as collectibles from the outset rather than instruments anyone expected to redeem.