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3 Marks MIAMA, Mitteldeutsche Ausstellung für Siedelung Sozialfürsorge und Arbeit Magdeburg 1922
| Issuer | City of Magdeburg (Notgeld, Prussian Province of Saxony) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 3 Marks |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 M SIEDELUNG SOZIALFÜRSORGE ARBEITSWESEN VERKEHRSWESEN ROHSTOFFWIRTSCHAFT KOMMUNALWIRTSCHAFT DIESER GUTSCHEIN WIRD BEI LÖSUNG VON EINTRITTS-KARTEN ZUR AUSSTELLUNG ZU DEM AUF IHM ANGEGEBENEN WERTE IN ZAHLUNG GENOMMEN. ER VERFÄLLT AM 31.X.22 MIAMA 1922 MAGDEBURG DAS DIREKTORIUM |
| Reverse description | Central vignette presents a colourful street scene of Alt-Magdeburg as rebuilt in 1688, with stepped-gable burghers' houses, church towers, and figures in period costume accompanied by a horse-drawn carriage, rendered in a vivid illustrative style printed by Freund-Beliani, Leipzig. Denomination cartouches '3 M' appear in matching decorative frames at left and right, with vertical side panels carrying the inscription WIEDERAUFGEBAUT ERSTAND MAGDE- at left and BURG SCHÖNER ALS ZUVOR 1688 at right, each panel also bearing the city arms of Magdeburg. A lower caption panel carries the title inscription in letterpress. |
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MIAMA — Mitteldeutsche Ausstellung für Siedelung, Sozialfürsorge und Arbeit — was a regional trade and social welfare exhibition held in Magdeburg in 1922, and this 3 Mark Notgeld was issued specifically as exhibition currency rather than emergency money in the strict sense. By 1922, Notgeld had largely shed its wartime necessity and become a deliberate collector vehicle; municipalities issued themed series knowing the notes would be purchased and pocketed rather than spent.
Brückner was a local Magdeburg printer, which is unusual — most collectible Notgeld of this period was farmed out to specialist printers in Leipzig or Berlin capable of finer chromolithographic work.