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Banknote

1923 (made)
Artist/Maker

Banknote, colour lithographic print on paper


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Colour lithograph on paper
Brief description
Emergency banknote for the Thüringische Staatsbank, 1923. Designed by Herbert Bayer.
5,000,000 Mark note printed in purple.
Physical description
Banknote, colour lithographic print on paper
Dimensions
  • Height: 7cm
  • Width: 14cm
Gallery label
These are emergency banknotes for the Thüringische Staatsbank, designed to allow space for the rapidly inflating mark to be inserted as the figure increased. Compared with the other banknotes Bayer's stood out for their use of 'Venus Grotesk', a sans-serif typeface, and geometric decoration.(circa 2000-2019)
Associations
Bibliographic reference
Taken from Departmental Circulation Register 1969
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.392-1969

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Record createdJuly 1, 2009
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