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Note Description: Memel / French Administration - Post WWI
1 Mark 1922
Grade: AU 55 EPQ
Country: MEM
Note Number: MEM2
Signatures/
Vignettes:		 - Chamber of Commerce
Certification #: 1831526-039  
Owner: Evaldas
Sets Competing: MEMEL 1922 - 2  Score: 165
Date Added: 3/5/2019
Research: See PMG's Census Report for this Note

Owner's Description

France. Treasury banknotes. Territories occupied after 1918. Memel. 1922 Issue. 1 Mark Type 1922 Memel Notgeld. (Ref. Pick: # 2, TBB: # B102, Rosenberg: # 847, Grabowski: # MEM-2 or Kolsky: # 165). Dimensions: 90 x 58 mm. Banknote dated February 22, 1922. Watermark: Shaded chain pattern.(Plastische Kette). Printer: Parcis, Munich. Front and back: multicolored print with predominantly bistre monochrome on the front and green, yellow and blue on the back. Description on the front: security background in bistre monochrome 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 "1 Eine Mark 1", 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. Back description: floral frame with a general view of the Curonian Spit dune. In the upper part, a white banner with the word Memel printed in black. At the bottom, a white cartouche containing the mention “Notgeld der Handelskammer” and on each side, the value “1 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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