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2 Mark Straßenbahn Berlin, Issue 7 - Erste elektr. Straßenbahn
| Issuer | Städtische Straßenbahn Berlin (Der Magistrat) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 84 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GILT BIS AUF WIDERRUF DURCH BEKANNTMACHUNG IM GEMEINDEBLATT 2 MARK Bei Benutzung der städtischen Straßenbahn BERLIN 1 MÄRZ 1922 DER MAGISTRAT GUT FÜR ZWEI MARK |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. Jur. Adler and Harding |
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Berlin's municipal tram authority issued this note in 1922 as part of a broader Notgeld program during the hyperinflationary spiral that was making small-denomination Reichsmark coins effectively worthless as fast as they could be minted. The seventh issue in the series commemorates the launch of the first electric tramline in Berlin — the Lichterfelde line, which began operating in May 1881 and was among the earliest electric street railways anywhere in the world, built by Siemens & Halske.
The two signatories, Dr. Jur. Adler and Harding, signed in their capacities as senior Magistrat officials authorizing emergency transport scrip — a bureaucratic detail that dates the note to a very narrow window before the currency collapsed entirely later that year.