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1 Mark Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur
| Issuer | Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-grey ground with a central arch-shaped vignette in dark burgundy enclosing a yellow allegorical female figure bending gracefully over a tall plant or flowering branch. The denomination legend "Eine Mark" is rendered in ornate Gothic blackletter script to the left and right of the central vignette, with the year "1921" spread across the upper field. A ribbon banner at the base of the arch carries the issuer's name in bold yellow uppercase lettering, while the flanking inscriptions "SPENDE" and "FÜR DIE" appear in white at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 MARK STREITEN U. KLAGEN FÜLLT KEINEN MAGEN KLAGEN U. STREITEN WAS WIRD'S BEREITEN MAX ESCHLE |
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The Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur — the League for the Protection of German Culture — was one of dozens of nationalist cultural organizations that proliferated in the early Weimar period, many of which issued their own emergency money as both a fundraising mechanism and a propaganda vehicle. This 1 Mark note is precisely that: a Notgeld issue that functioned less as a monetary instrument than as a printed pamphlet you could spend.
Max Eschle designed the piece; Ratsdruckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau handled the press work. Glauchau, a small Saxonian industrial town, had an active municipal printing infrastructure that took on considerable private Notgeld commissions during the 1921 inflation period.