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100 Pfennig Deutsche Amerika-Woche
| Issuer | Weser-Gilde, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette is enclosed within a blue guilloche underprint bearing the numeral '100' in a bold oval cartouche, flanked by cursive signature underprints. Above the cartouche, the three-line inscription 'DEUTSCHE / AMERIKA-WOCHE / BREMEN' is printed in heavy block lettering. The entire central panel is surrounded by a decorative border of national flags — including those of the United States, Bremen, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Chile, and Brazil — with horizontal red and white stripes referencing American colours at top and bottom; a key vignette appears below the numeral, and a red serial letter 'A' is visible at centre-bottom. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a detailed architectural vignette of the Bremen Rathaus (Town Hall) rendered in a bold linear woodcut style in dark grey and red tones against a yellow-ochre hatched background, with the Bremen flag draped from the façade. The denomination '100 PFENNIG' is printed vertically along both left and right borders in large diagonal lettering, with 'BREMEN' inscribed at upper left within the vignette. Below the central image, the inscription 'Frühjahr 1923 BREMEN Frühjahr 1923' runs across the full width, and the artist's signature 'Scotland' appears at lower right of the vignette. |
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The Deutsche Amerika-Woche — German-America Week — was a trade and cultural promotion event staged in 1923 to rebuild commercial ties between Germany and the American market at a moment when the Weimar hyperinflation was destroying any reliable basis for domestic pricing. The Weser-Gilde, a Bremen merchant and trade association, issued this note as event scrip rather than emergency currency in the strict sense; it functioned within the fair's economic micro-environment, not in general circulation.
Bremen's position as Germany's primary transatlantic port gave the Amerika-Woche genuine commercial logic. Hauschild Verlag, a well-established Bremen printing and publishing house, handled production locally.