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1 Mark Rostocker Frühjahrs Woche
| Issuer | Rostocker Frühjahrs Woche, Rostock |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | WECHSELGELD DER ROSTOCKER FRÜHJAHRS WOCHE 1 MARK DIESES WECHSELGELD WIRD WÄHREND DER ROSTOCKER FRÜHJAHRS WOCHE VON ALLEN DURCH PLAKATE KENNTLICH GEMACHTEN GESCHÄFTEN, HOTELS, ect. IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN. |
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| Reverse lettering | WECHSELGELD DER ROSTOCKER FRÜHJAHRS WOCHE MARK 1 Der Bau von St. Petri vor 700 Jahren Carl Boldt Hofbuchdruckerei Rostock |
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Egon Tschirch was a Rostock-born painter and graphic artist whose regional reputation was well established by the time the Rostocker Frühjahrs Woche — the city's spring trade fair — commissioned him for this 1922 notgeld issue. That commissioning choice matters: most municipal emergency currency of the period went to commercial print houses with stock vignette libraries. This one went to a local artist with a distinct hand, printed by Carl Boldt, the court printer operating out of Rostock itself.
The Frühjahrs Woche issues were explicitly promotional as much as functional, designed to circulate among fair visitors during the hyperinflation period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from everyday transactions.