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20 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Essen (City of Essen) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Essen Zwanzig Mark zahlt die Stadt Essen dem Einlieferer dieses Scheines einen Monat nach Aufruf in den Essener Tageszeitungen. Genehmigung zur Ausgabe dieses Notgeldes ist erteilt durch Erlaß des Reichsfinanzministers vom 16.9.1922 - V.C. 1998 - Essen, am 5.Okt.1922. Der Oberbürgermeister. ENTWURF VON WILH. BOETTER DRUCK VON W. GIRARDET ESSEN |
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| Reverse lettering | NOTGELD 20 DER STADT ESSEN NOTGELD 20 DER STADT ESSEN Trägt der Schein, ein Ehrenwort spricht, doch diese Scheine tragen nicht Alssonia steht dafür ein, da kann man ohne Sorgen sein |
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Essen's 1922 notgeld issue belongs to the inflationary emergency currency wave that overwhelmed German municipal finance as the Reichsbank lost control of purchasing power. Stadt Essen, as an industrial center of the Ruhr, had both the commercial urgency and the local printing infrastructure to act quickly — W. Girardet was an established Essen press, not a distant contractor.
The Boetter design credit is worth noting. Wilhelm Boetter was among several regional commercial artists producing notgeld graphics during this period, when municipalities briefly treated emergency currency as something close to civic art.