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5 Mark
| Issuer | Handelskammer des Memelgebiets (Chamber of Commerce of the Memel Territory) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Mark (1922) |
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| Reverse lettering | Memel Die Börse Notgeld der Handelskammer 5 Mark GEBR. PARCUS-MÜNCHEN |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Memel Territory — a strip of Lithuanian coastline seized from Germany under the Versailles Treaty and placed under French administration — was economically adrift in 1922. The occupying authorities provided no stable local currency, so the Chamber of Commerce stepped in and issued its own emergency notes. This was notgeld in the broader sense, but issued by a quasi-governmental trade body rather than a municipality, which gives it an unusual institutional character for the series.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich printed several of the Memel Chamber issues. Lithuania annexed the territory by force in January 1923, ending French administration and rendering these notes obsolete within months of issue.