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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Memmingen (City of Memmingen) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Engraver(s) | Private Printers (Germany) - PP |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this Memmingen notgeld issue presents the denomination '20 Mark' in bold letterpress typography within a framed vignette, accompanied by text identifying the issuing municipality and the period of validity. Decorative borders and typographic ornaments frame the central text block in a style typical of South German emergency currency of the 1918–1919 period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries printed text setting out the legal basis and conditions of the note's validity, consistent with municipal notgeld practice of the late Imperial and early Weimar period. Typographic framing elements and ornamental rules surround the text, printed by Gebrüder Parcus of Munich in a clean letterpress composition. |
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Memmingen's 20 Mark notgeld was issued during the acute small-change and confidence crisis that gripped German municipalities in the final year of the war and its immediate aftermath. As central bank notes were hoarded and metal coinage vanished from circulation, hundreds of German towns commissioned local emergency currency — Memmingen among them. Gebrüder Parcus in Munich was a natural choice: the firm handled a substantial share of Bavarian municipal printing work during this period and had the capacity to turn around jobs quickly.
The 20 Mark denomination places this firmly in the higher-value notgeld range, more transactional instrument than the small-denomination collector pieces that flooded the market by 1921.