Reference:
Pick: #4 , The Banknote Book: B104 , Other: MEM-4
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Description
France. Treasury banknotes. Territories occupied after 1918. Memel. 1922 Issue. 5 Mark Type 1922 Memel Notgeld. (Ref. Pick: # 4, TBB: # B104, Rosenberg: # 849, Grabowski: # MEM-4 or Kolsky: # 167). Dimensions: 120 x 80 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 dominant blue and bistre on the front and gray-green, bistre and blue on the back. Description of the front: security background in blue and bistre composed of wavy patterns with in the center a large rosette containing the coat of arms of the town of Memel. All texts are printed in black. The value in figures is printed in black in the corners. 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 "Fünf Mark" and the words "Ungültig drei Monate nach Abruf (without value 3 months after the end of the issue)". Four signatures are affixed in the center of the note: G. Petisné, Joseph Kraus, Berhnard Hennig, & Dr. F.J. Meier. Below, the words in French: "Authorized: Memel, February 22, 1922 The High Commissioner Representative of the Allied Powers" and the six-digit banknote number. Back description: floral frame with three frames in which are represented a sailboat and a sailor, the stock market (Die Börse) with boats and a sailor looking at a steamer in the port of Memel. In the upper part, a white banner with the word Memel printed in black. At the bottom, a white cartridge containing the words "Die Börse, Notgeld der Handelskammer" and on each side, the value "5 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 (CANCELED)". No specimen known for this note.