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2 Mark Oldenburger Woche
| Issuer | Oldenburger Woche (Oldenburg Trade Week Committee) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 2 Marks |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld with pink and blue-grey letterpress underprint and a scalloped ornamental border. At left, a circular vignette bears the interlocked monogram 'OW' with the legend 'OLDENBURGER WOCHE OLDENBURG' and date '21.-31. MAI 1922'. The denomination '2 MARK' appears in large bold type at upper right, below which the issuing text and validity date are set in block lettering. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 M OLDENBURG I.J. 2000: AM KÜSTENKANAL |
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Oldenburger Woche was a regional trade fair held in Oldenburg in the summer of 1922, and this 2 Mark note was issued specifically to facilitate transactions during the event — a common enough practice in Weimar-era Germany, where hyperinflationary pressure and coin shortages pushed local organizers toward private emergency money. The Essich firm, successor to F. Büttner, was a local Oldenburg printer, which keeps the entire production chain unusually close: committee, issuer, and press all within the same city.