THEY say that crisis brings out the best in people. That was certainly true during the hyperinflation that hit in Germany in the early twentieth century. The rates dropped so fast new money had to printed all the time. Sometimes the federal bank couldn’t keep up. In response, towns and companies started making their own money to pay to workers and residents. In 1918 painter and graphic artist Wenzel Hablik designed these emergency banknotes for the city of  Kreis Steinburg. The typography reminds me a bit of the psychedelic posters of Wes Wilson. Check out more notes Wenzel Hablik here. They belong to an immense collection of emergency money.

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