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3 Mark Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur
| Issuer | Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur, Landesgruppe Sachsen |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#435.1 3/5 |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown and purple on a golden-ochre ground, the obverse is dominated by a central triangular vignette containing an allegorical standing female figure — a personification of German culture — sheltering three crouching, distressed figures at her feet. The denomination "Drei Mark" is rendered in large Gothic Fraktur script across the upper field, flanked by the date "1921" at the top. Flanking inscriptions read "SPENDE FÜR DIE" and, on a ribbon banner at the base of the triangle, "LIGA ZUM SCHUTZE DER DEUTSCHEN KULTUR", with "LANDESGRUPPE" and "SACHSEN" at the lower corners; the printer's imprint appears in the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown and dark green on blue-toned paper, the reverse carries a bold central text block bearing the denomination numeral "3 MARK" above a literary quotation in Gothic script. The composition is spare and typographic in character, relying on contrast between the dark ink and lighter ground for visual effect. |
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The Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur — the League for the Protection of German Culture — was a nationalist organization that emerged from the post-Versailles humiliation, and this 1921 Saxony issue is one of the more ideologically loaded pieces of Notgeld to come out of that period. Private cultural organizations issuing their own emergency currency was unusual even by Weimar-era standards, where municipalities, firms, and cooperatives all printed local scrip during the inflation emergency.
Rats-Druckerei R. Dulce in Glauchau was a regional commercial printer with no particular numismatic pedigree. M. Eschle as designer is otherwise obscure in the Notgeld literature.