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2 Mark
| Issuer | Handelskammer des Memelgebiets (Chamber of Commerce of the Memel Territory) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | P#3 |
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| Reverse lettering | Memel 2 Mark Mark Notgeld der Handelskammer 1630 OST-SEE Curisches Haff Curische Nehrung GEBR. PARCUS. MÜNCHEN |
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| Protection description | Chain watermark. |
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The Memel Territory — stripped from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles and placed under French administration in 1920 — had no functioning central bank and a currency situation that was genuinely chaotic. The French administered it using French francs, but local commerce required something more practical. The Handelskammer stepped in during 1922 to issue emergency notgeld, a stopgap measure that was itself rendered obsolete within months when Lithuania seized the territory by force in January 1923.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was a well-established printer of securities and commercial paper; their involvement here is slightly incongruous given the territory's ambiguous political status — Munich was squarely in the German orbit at a time when Memel's future was anything but settled.