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| Issuer | City of Nuremberg (1. Große Notgeld-Ausstellung) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | HILFSSCHEIN DER 1. GROSSEN NOTGELD-AUSSTELLUNG IN NÜRNBERG DIESER GUTSCHEIN ÜBER EINE MARK HAT NUR IN DEN AUSSTELLUNGS-RÄUMEN GÜLTIGKEIT VOM 17.-31. JULI 1921 FÜR DIE EINLÖSUNG BIS 31. JULI 1921 BÜRGT DIE AUSSTELLUNGSLEITUNG GEDENKSCHEIN AN DEN 1. INT. NOTGELD-HÄNDLERTAG VOM 23.-28. JULI 1921 IN NÜRNBERG E. NISTER NÜRNBERG |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 MARK 1 MARK |
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Nuremberg's first major Notgeld exhibition in 1921 was itself the occasion for this note's issue — it was not emergency currency in any functional sense, but a souvenir item produced specifically for collectors attending the event. The printer, E. Nister, was a well-established Nuremberg firm with a long background in illustrated books and chromolithography, which made them a natural choice for exhibition-quality ephemera rather than utility currency.
This sits in the broader Serienscheine phenomenon, where German municipalities discovered that collectors would buy and hold decorative small notes outright, effectively generating municipal revenue without ever redeeming a pfennig.