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1 Mark Notgeld-Ausstellung
| Issuer | City of Nuremberg (Notgeld-Ausstellung) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in a warm beige tone with dark letterpress text in a stylized Art Nouveau typeface throughout. The central denomination EINE MARK is set in large outlined letters, flanked on the left by the Bavarian lozenge-patterned shield with an armored figure, and on the right by the Nuremberg imperial eagle coat of arms, both rendered as small colour vignettes within geometric guilloche-bordered panels. A manuscript facsimile signature appears below the central text block, and the printer's imprint E. NISTER NÜRNBERG is discreetly placed at the lower right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | HILFSCHEIN 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. JUL 1921 IN NÜRNBERG |
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Nuremberg's 1921 Notgeld-Ausstellung — a dedicated exhibition celebrating the emergency money phenomenon itself — produced this note as a collector piece rather than a circulating instrument. By 1921, German municipalities had been issuing Notgeld for years, and the secondary market for these notes had grown large enough to justify an exhibition specifically devoted to them. Nuremberg was staging a show about the very currency it was still printing.
E. Nister was a Nuremberg-based printer with deep roots in chromolithographic work, which explains the production quality typical of this exhibition series. These notes were sold to visitors, not issued through banks.