MEMEL 1922 - 2
2 Mark 1922 French Administration - Post WWI P3

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Note Description: Memel / French Administration - Post WWI
2 Mark 1922 - Wmk: Contoured Chain
Grade: 66 EPQ
Country: MEM
Note Number: MEM3b
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Chamber of Commerce
Certification #: 1832180-008  
Owner: Evaldas
Sets Competing: MEMEL 1922 - 2  Score: 386
Date Added: 3/8/2022
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

France. Treasury banknotes. Territories occupied after 1918. Memel. 1922 Issue. 2 Mark Type 1922 Memel Notgeld. (Ref. Pick: # 3, TBB: # B103, Rosenberg: # 848, Grabowski: # MEM-3 or Kolsky: # 166). Dimensions: 96 x 65 mm. Banknote dated February 22, 1922. Watermark: Shaded chain pattern (Plastische Kette) or Outline chain pattern (Konturen Kette). Printer: Parcis, Munich. Front and back: multicolored print with predominantly bleue and bistre on the front and green, brown and blue on the back. Description on the front: security background in blue and bistre composed of wavy patterns with a large rosette in the center containing the coat of arms of the town of Memel. All texts are printed in black. Top center, the words "Notgeld der Handelskammer des Memelgebiets (Emergency banknotes from the Chamber of Commerce of the Memel country)". Below, the value in Gothic letters "2 Zwei Mark 2", the six-digit banknote number and the words "Ungültig drei Monate nach Abruf (not worth 3 months after the end of the issue)". On the left, the words in French: "Authorized: Memel, February 22, 1922 The High Commissioner Representative of the Allied Powers". Four signatures are affixed at the bottom of the post: G. Petisné, Joseph Kraus, Berhnard Hennig, & Dr. F.J. Meier. Description of the back: floral frame with a general and historical view of the town of Memel around 1630. In the upper part, a white banner with the word Memel printed in black. At the bottom, a white cartridge containing the words "1630 Notgeld der Handelskammer" and on each side, the value "2 Mark" repeated twice in black. The name of the printer is shown in the center outside of the frame "GEBR." PARCUS MÜNCHEN ”. The bill is known without numbering and punched "UNGÜLTIG (CANCELLED)". No specimen known for this note.

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