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1 Mark Männer-Turnverein
| Issuer | Männer-Turnverein Bremen von 1875 (M.T.V.B.) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | M.T.V. 1875 BREMEN. D.T. GÜLTIG 3 MONAT nach BEKANNTGABE am 1 MK. KREIS BLATT. 1 MK. 100 |
| Reverse description | Multicolour woodcut-style vignette on a yellow-orange ground enclosed within a blue perforated stamp-like border. A sole footballer in a dark jersey and white shorts is shown in full stride about to strike a ball on a green pitch, with a stylised townscape rendered in bold flat colours in the background. The denomination numerals "100" appear at lower left and lower right, while the payment voucher legend is inscribed in hand-lettered Gothic script across the upper portion of the note. |
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The Männer-Turnverein Bremen von 1875 was a gymnastics club, not a bank — and that distinction matters here. This note is Vereinsgeld, club scrip issued by a private sporting association to facilitate internal transactions, almost certainly canteen or event-related spending. Germany's inflation period of the early 1920s forced countless non-financial institutions into improvised currency roles simply to function day-to-day.
G. Hunckel was a Bremen commercial printer with no particular numismatic profile, which shows. These club issues were functional objects, not prestige commissions.