Catalog
1 Mark Männer-Turnverein
| Issuer | Männer-Turnverein Bremen von 1875 (M.T.V.B.) |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vivid multicolour woodcut-style vignette on a blue ground, with a perforated stamp-like border. Three gymnasts in white athletic dress are arranged in a human pyramid formation against a stylised landscape of green trees and yellow paths; the serial number 100 appears in large bold numerals at centre. The issuer legend and validity clause are inscribed in hand-lettered Gothic script across the upper field, with the denomination stated twice flanking the word "KREIS" at mid-left and "BLATT" at mid-right. The printer's imprint "G. HUNCKEL, BREMEN" appears in the lower right corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | GUTSCHEIN für ZAHLUNGEN INNERHALB des M.T.V.B. 100 100 |
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The Männer-Turnverein Bremen von 1875 was a gymnastics club, not a bank — and that distinction matters here. This note is Vereinsgeld, club scrip issued by a private sporting association to facilitate internal transactions, almost certainly canteen or event-related spending. Germany's inflation period of the early 1920s forced countless non-financial institutions into improvised currency roles simply to function day-to-day.
G. Hunckel was a Bremen commercial printer with no particular numismatic profile, which shows. These club issues were functional objects, not prestige commissions.