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50 Pfennig Deutsche Amerika-Woche
| Issuer | Weser-Gilde, Bremen |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE BREMEN 50 Dieser Gutschein verliert am Tage der 1ten Deutschen seine Gültigkeit. Das Präsidium der Weser-Gilde der Beendigung Amerika-Woche Die Geschäfts-Führung HAUSCHILD BREMEN |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a bold letterpress heading DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE across the top within a red border frame, with the denomination 50 PFENNIG repeated vertically in large capitals along both side margins. The central vignette, captioned VEGESACK at the upper left and signed Scotland at the lower right, presents a two-colour industrial scene of a shipyard at Vegesack, near Bremen, with harbour cranes, scaffolding, and the red-painted hull of a vessel under construction rendered in a striking graphic poster style. The bottom margin bears the inscriptions Frühjahr 1923 flanking the bold central legend BREMEN, repeated symmetrically on both sides. |
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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.