Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Mark Oldenburger Woche
| Issuer | Oldenburger Woche (Oldenburg Trade Fair), Oldenburg i.O. |
|---|---|
| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | OLDENBURGER WOCHE OLDENBURG 21.-31. MAI 1922 1 MARK NOTGELD DER OLDENBURGER WOCHE 21.-31. MAI 1922 DIESER SCHEIN VERLIERT SEINE GÜLTIGKEIT AM 5. JUNI 1922 / OLDENBURG / RATHAUS, DEN 21. MAI 1922 DER GESCHÄFTSAUSSCHUSS |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | OLDENBURG I.J. 2009 DAS VOOR: DIE GETREIDE-KAMMER 1 M BAUMANN |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Oldenburg's trade fair notgeld occupies a peculiar niche even within the already chaotic German emergency money issues of 1922. The Oldenburger Woche — the city's annual trade fair — issued its own scrip for use within the fairgrounds, a practice that blurred the line between promotional souvenir and functional small change at a moment when inflationary pressure was making official coins functionally useless. Whether these circulated seriously or were collected on the spot is an open question; fair-specific notgeld typically had a very short redemption window tied to the event itself.
Ad. Essich & Co., the Oldenburg printer, was a local house — Büttner's successor firm — rather than one of the major Leipzig or Berlin notgeld specialists.