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10 Festpfennige Deutsche Festmarkbank
| Issuer | Deutsche Festmarkbank Aktiengesellschaft, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note on cream paper with dense guilloche border framing the entire face. The denomination "Zehn Festpfennige" is set in large Fraktur script at centre, above a highlighted panel stating the equivalent of 1/40 of a dollar. A red serial number appears vertically at left, flanked by the issuer name in Roman capitals along the top and bottom margins; two facsimile signatures and a circular bank seal appear at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper printed in black Fraktur letterpress with four numbered redemption conditions set in justified paragraphs. A blue rectangular cancellation stamp reading "Nicht übertragbar" (non-transferable) appears at lower left. The issuer name "Deutsche Festmarkbank Aktiengesellschaft" is printed in bold Fraktur at foot, with place and date "Bremen, im Oktober 1923" centred above it. |
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The Deutsche Festmarkbank AG was one of several private banking ventures that emerged during the German hyperinflation crisis of 1923, attempting to issue currency pegged to stable values — the "Festmark" concept being a precursor to the Rentenmark stabilization that ultimately ended the inflation in November of that year. Whether this particular institution's notes ever achieved meaningful acceptance or simply circulated briefly in the Bremen region before being overtaken by events is unclear; the bank itself left almost no archival footprint.
Printed locally by G. Hunckel of Bremen rather than one of the major emergency currency printers, which accounts for the comparatively modest production quality typical of regional Notgeld operations in this period.