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1 Mark Tabakmesshaus Kosmos
| Issuer | Tabakmesshaus Kosmos, Leipzig |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note in orange and black with a central vignette of the Kosmos trade exhibition building set against an orange ground, flanked by stylised tobacco leaves bearing the monogram 'TM' in white on black. The issuer legend 'TABAKMESSHAUS KOSMOS LEIPZIG' is set in bold capitals below the vignette, above a text panel stating the redemption obligation dated Leipzig, 1 September 1921, with a manuscript signature for Messhaus Kosmos. The denomination '1 MARK' appears in large type at the lower left and right corners, with a validity notice and the printer's imprint 'Druck von Adolf Forker, Leipzig' at foot. |
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Tabakmesshaus Kosmos was a Leipzig tobacco trading house, and this 1921 Notgeld issue is entirely characteristic of the inflationary emergency currency flooding German commerce that year — private firms printing their own small-denomination scrip to compensate for the chronic shortage of official coinage. Adolf Forker was a local Leipzig printer, not a banknote specialist, which tends to show in the production quality of pieces from this series.
Leipzig's trade fair infrastructure made it a natural center for this kind of merchant-issued currency.