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80 Pfennig Kieler Herbstwoche für Kunst und Wissenschaft
| Issuer | Stadt Kiel (City of Kiel) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | UND NICHT ALS WAS ICH BIN, DENN NUR DER SCHEIN ZAHLEN MICH ALS WAS ICH SCHEINE, HAB' ICH HEUTE KEINEN SINN 80 Pf. Kieler Herbstwoche für Kunst und Wissenschaft 1921 10.–18. September Dieser Gutschein wird auf der Straßenbahn, in Läden, Gastwirtschaften u. Schankstätten während der Kieler Herbstwoche für Kunst und Wissenschaft vom 9. bis 19. September 1921 in Zahlung genommen. Der Schein wird bis zum 31. Oktober 1921 bei der Kieler Bank in Kiel eingelöst. JOHANN B. MAIER GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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| Reverse lettering | Pf. 80 Pf. DER KIELER UMSCHLAG |
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The Kieler Herbstwoche — a festival week dedicated to art and science — was an unusual pretext for notgeld issue, most emergency municipal currency of the period being tied to straightforward payment shortages rather than cultural events. Kiel's 1921 series leaned into that identity deliberately, using the occasion as both a funding mechanism and a promotional vehicle during the height of the Serienscheine collecting craze, when municipalities across Germany issued artistically ambitious notes knowing full well they'd be absorbed by collectors rather than redeemed.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich were among the more competent commercial printers handling notgeld commissions at the time, with a reputation for cleaner color registration than many competitors working under the same inflationary pressures.