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1 000 000 Mark Leusch & Co, Berlin und Ludwigshafen am See
| Issuer | Leusch & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bankgeschäft |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Wir bitten diesen Scheck im Zahlungsverkehr als Bargeld zu behandeln Scheck geht in Ordnung Leusch & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, Bankgeschäft Leusch & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft Berlin-Charlottenburg 4 Bankgeschäft Wilmersdorfer Str. 107 Zahle gegen diesen Scheck aus unserem Guthaben an Überbringer 1.000.000 Mark Eine Million Mark Berlin-Ludwigshafen-See, den Allgemeine Holzbau Akt.-Ges. Der Vorstand (Translation: We ask that you treat this check as cash for payment transactions. Check is acceptable. Leusch & Co. Limited Partnership, Banking Leusch & Co. Limited Partnership Berlin-Charlottenburg 4, Banking, Wilmersdorfer Str. 107 Pay against this check from our credit balance to bearer 1,000,000 Marks One million Marks Berlin-Ludwigshafen-See, the Allgemeine Holzbau Akt.-Ges. The Board of Directors) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse with no printed design, showing only the bleed-through impression of the obverse text and guilloche underprint visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Leusch & Co. was a private banking firm — a Kommanditgesellschaft, meaning it carried the personal liability of at least one general partner — and this note is one of the notgeld issues that firm floated during the hyperinflation peak of 1923, when the Reichsmark was collapsing fast enough that million-mark denominations became routine within weeks of introduction. Private commercial banks issuing their own emergency currency was not unprecedented in Germany, but it was a measure of how thoroughly the Reichsbank had lost control of the payments system by mid-1923.
The dual city designation — Berlin and Ludwigshafen am See — reflects the firm's branch structure rather than any split printing arrangement.