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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtgemeinde Heilbronn a.N. (City of Heilbronn on the Neckar) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 10 000 000 Marks (10 000 000) |
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| Obverse description | Orange-toned note with a large winged eagle vignette as underprint at center. The denomination 'Zehn Millionen Mark' is set in bold Gothic blackletter script across the middle field. A Heilbronn city skyline underprint appears at the base, with a serial number in red at left margin and two manuscript signatures below the issuing authority lines. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-colored note printed in dark grey with minimal decoration. The issuer title 'Notgeldschein der Stadtgemeinde Heilbronn' is set in large arched Gothic script at top, with the numeral '10,000,000' rendered in large guilloche-patterned figures spanning the lower half. A simple geometric border frames the entire note. |
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| Comments |
Heilbronn was among hundreds of German municipalities that issued their own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflation of 1923, when the Reichsbank's output simply could not keep pace with denominations that were doubling within days. By August of that year, ten million marks had become a routine transaction amount, not an extraordinary one. Within weeks of notes at this level being printed, they were already functionally obsolete.
Municipal Notgeld of this period was printed locally under considerable logistical pressure, and quality control was not a priority.