The Third Reich issued this series on 30 August 1935 to commemorate the 7th Party Rally in Nürnberg (Nuremberg).

Those with “X” suffixes feature a normal swastika watermark — when viewed from the rear, the legs of the swastika point in a counterclockwise direction. The “Y” suffixes feature the rarer reversed swastika watermark, with the legs of the swastika pointed in a clockwise direction when viewed from the rear.