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1 000 000 Mark Wolfen; Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation
| Issuer | Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation, Wolfen |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Eine Million Mark Serie I Gutschein № 906 für Eine Million Mark der Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation Wolfen, Kreis Bitterfeld. Dieser Gutschein wird vor dem 1. Dezember 1923 an den Kassen unserer Wolfener Fabriken und an anderen noch bekanntzugebenden Stellen eingelöst, und zwar binnen einer Frist von vier Wochen, deren Beginn und Ende durch Anschlag in unseren Wolfener Fabriken und durch Anzeige im „Bitterfelder Tageblatt” und im „Anhalter Anzeiger” bekanntgegeben wird. Wolfen, Kreis Bitterfeld, den 15. August 1923. Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation. (Translation: One Million Mark Series I Voucher for One Million Mark of the Joint-Stock Company for Aniline Manufacturing Wolfen, Bitterfeld District. This voucher will be redeemed before December 1, 1923, at the cash desks of our Wolfen factories and at other locations yet to be announced, specifically within a period of four weeks, the beginning and end of which will be announced by notice in our Wolfen factories and by advertisement in the "Bitterfelder Tageblatt" and in the "Anhalter Anzeiger". Wolfen, Bitterfeld District, August 15, 1923. Joint-Stock Company for Aniline Manufacturing.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Gutschein Eine Million Mark (Translation: Voucher One Million Mark) |
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Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin-Fabrikation — better known as AGFA — was already one of Germany's dominant photographic and chemical manufacturers when hyperinflation forced it, like thousands of other industrial firms, to issue its own emergency currency in 1923. This Wolfen plant note is Notgeld in the strict sense: privately issued, locally valid, a workaround for a Reich monetary system that had effectively collapsed. The Wolfen facility was the company's main film production site, distinct from the Leverkusen dye works.
The watermark is the detail worth noting — relatively uncommon for industrial Notgeld at this denomination level, where speed of production usually outweighed security concerns.