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75 Pfennig Deutsche Amerika-Woche
| Issuer | Weser-Gilde, Bremen |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 110 × 75 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a colourful lithographic panoramic vignette of the port of Buenos Aires, signed in the lower left corner by the artist Scottano, rendered in blue, olive, red, and white tones showing steamships, sailing vessels, quayside warehouses, and the city skyline. The inscription BUENOS AIRES appears in white lettering within the vignette at upper left. A beige border frames the central scene, with the denomination 75 PFENNIG repeated vertically on both lateral margins in bold red numerals and lettering, and the legends DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE at the top and BREMEN flanked by Frühjahr 1923 at the foot, all in bold red letterpress. |
| Reverse lettering | DEUTSCHE AMERIKA-WOCHE 75 PFENNIG BUENOS AIRES Frühjahr 1923 BREMEN Frühjahr 1923 |
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The Deutsche Amerika-Woche — German-America Week — was a cultural and trade promotion event held in 1922, aimed at rebuilding commercial ties with the United States after the disruptions of the war and the diplomatic freeze that followed. The Weser-Gilde, a Bremen merchants' association with deep roots in transatlantic trade, issued this 75 Pfennig note as event scrip rather than emergency currency in the strict Notgeld sense. Bremen's entire commercial identity was bound to its port and American trade routes, which gives this piece a function beyond the purely numismatic.
Hauschild was the dominant printer of Bremen's Notgeld and commemorative scrip issues during this period, responsible for much of the high-quality lithographic output associated with the city.