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100 Pfennig Deutsche Amerika-Woche
| Issuer | Weser-Gilde, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 100 Pfennigs (100 Pfennige) (1.00) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a central white vignette on a blue guilloche underprint, bearing the bold black inscription DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE BREMEN at the top and a large numeral 100 within an oval cartouche at centre. Flanking the inner panel on left and right are vertical columns of national flags of various American nations in multicolour letterpress, with the Stars and Stripes of the United States prominent at lower left and the flag of Brazil at lower right. The outer border is composed of red and white horizontal stripes evoking the American flag, framed by a black rule, with two facsimile signatures printed in green below the central vignette and a red series letter B at centre-bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE BREMEN 100 Dieser Gutschein verliert am Tage der 1-ten Deutschen seine Gültigkeit Das Präsidium der Weser-Gilde der Beendigung Amerika-Woche Die Geschäfts-Führung HAUSCHILD BREMEN |
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The Deutsche Amerika-Woche — German America Week — was a commercial and cultural promotion held in Bremen in 1923, organized to stimulate transatlantic trade ties at a moment when hyperinflation was making conventional pricing nearly impossible. The Weser-Gilde, a Bremen merchants' association, issued this scrip as functional event currency, allowing transactions to proceed at a fixed notional value while the Reichsmark collapsed around it.
Hauschild was a well-established Bremen print and publishing house, a practical local choice. The DeNG reference places this within a documented series of eight variants for the issue.