1 Mark Rostocker Frühjahrs Woche

Rostock's spring trade fair series of 1922 sits at the intersection of German municipal Notgeld and the short-lived "Serienscheine" collecting craze, when towns across Weimar Germany issued decorative emergency currency explicitly designed to be hoarded rather than spent — effectively converting civic pride into a self-financing scheme. Carl Boldt's Hofbuchdruckerei printed the run locally, and Egon Tschirch, a Rostock-born painter with a regional reputation, supplied the designs.

Tschirch's involvement is the detail worth noting. He was not a commercial illustrator pressed into service but a trained fine artist, which separates this series from the bulk of Serienscheine output.