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25 Pfennig Deutsche Amerika-Woche
| Issuer | Weser-Gilde, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette is framed by a bold black border and surrounded on all four sides by a colourful array of national flags representing American nations, with the Bremen flag at upper left and the flag of the United States at lower left. The central panel, set against a fine guilloche underprint, carries the denomination numeral "25" within an oval cartouche, flanked by decorative scrollwork, with a key emblem at centre below. Two columns of handwritten text in cursive script, divided left and right of the key vignette, convey the validity notice and issuing authority, with two manuscript signatures in green ink below, and a red series letter "B" at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE SANTIAGO DE CHILE 25 PFENNIG 25 PFENNIG Frühjahr 1923 BREMEN Frühjahr 1923 |
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The Deutsche Amerika-Woche — German America Week — was a trade and cultural promotion event staged in Bremen in 1923, aimed at rebuilding transatlantic commercial ties that had been severed by the war and its aftermath. The Weser-Gilde, a Bremen merchants' association, issued this 25 Pfennig note as part of the event's parallel small-change economy, a common workaround during the hyperinflationary period when official coinage had effectively vanished from circulation.
H.M. Hauschild was a well-established Bremen printer and publisher with a long history of producing regional Notgeld, which likely accounts for the relatively clean execution of the series. The DeNG reference distinguishes two varieties (1 and 2) within this denomination, suggesting at least a color or paper variant between issues.