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1 Mark Oldenburger Woche
| Issuer | Oldenburger Woche (City of Oldenburg i. O.) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 5 June 1922 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pink and blue on cream paper with a hatched background. A large central vignette, enclosed within a flowing arrow-shaped banner, presents a footballer in mid-kick with a ball at his feet, above which the Oldenburg city crown device appears. The surrounding ribbon banner bears the inscription 'OLDENBURG I.J. 2000: SPORTPLATZ JADEBUSEN', with regional place names 'Wilhelmshaven-Rüstringen', 'Butjadingen', and 'Varel' annotated on a schematic map background. The denomination '1 M' appears in bold at upper left, and the designer's signature 'Bacmann' is inscribed at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 M OLDENBURG I.J. 2000: SPORTPLATZ JADEBUSEN WILHELMSHAVEN-RÜSTRINGEN BUTJADINGEN VAREL BAC MANN |
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The Oldenburger Woche was a local newspaper, not a bank — its issuance of notgeld in 1922 was less unusual than it sounds. During the hyperinflationary spiral of Weimar Germany, municipalities, businesses, and private organizations all printed emergency small-denomination currency to compensate for the chronic shortage of official coinage. A newspaper publishing its own scrip was simply practical; the masthead lent enough local credibility to make the notes circulate within the city.
Printed by Ad. Essich & Co. on their home ground in Oldenburg, the note never traveled far. Designer Bacmann is otherwise unattributed in the standard notgeld literature.