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50 Pfennig Deutsche Amerika-Woche
| Issuer | Weser-Gilde, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a colourful border of international flags of the Americas and Europe, arranged in vertical panels on the left and right sides and horizontal striped bands at top and bottom, with the United States flag occupying the lower-left corner and the Brazilian flag the lower-right. The central panel, set against a fine crosshatch guilloche underprint, carries the bold letterpress inscription DEUTSCHE / AMERIKA-WOCHE / BREMEN at the top, with the denomination numeral 50 enclosed in a heavy oval cartouche at centre. Below, a two-column script text records the conditions of validity, flanked by two handwritten signatures and a decorative key vignette above the red serial letter A, with the imprint HAUSCHILD BREMEN at the lower-left margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE 50 PFENNIG VEGESACK Scotland Frühjahr 1923 BREMEN Frühjahr 1923 |
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The Deutsche Amerika-Woche — German-America Week — was a trade promotion event organized in Bremen in 1923, aimed at reviving transatlantic commercial ties during the catastrophic inflation that was then destroying the Reichsmark. The Weser-Gilde, a Bremen merchants' association, issued this note as a local Notgeld voucher tied to the event, effectively circulating scrip within a specific commercial context rather than as general emergency currency.
H.M. Hauschild was a well-established Bremen publishing and printing house with a long record of producing regional Notgeld, which accounts for the clean execution typical of their output. The Amerika-Woche series is catalogued in three design variants under the DeNG reference, distinguishing it from the mass of anonymous 1923 inflation scrip.