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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Amtskörperschaft Saulgau (District of Saulgau, Württemberg) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Pale green guilloche underprint covers the entire face, with four municipal coat-of-arms vignettes positioned at each corner. The denomination "Zehn Millionen Mark" is rendered in large, ornate Gothic blackletter script dominating the centre, surmounted by the numeral value "Mark: 10,000,000." in a header cartouche. A circular official violet stamp of the Amtskörperschaft Saulgau is applied to the left centre, with a handwritten serial number in red at lower left, two manuscript signatures of the issuing officials at lower right, and the printer's imprint "Gebr. Edel, Saulgau" at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the blind impression of the obverse design visible as a mirror-image offset through the thin paper stock, with no additional text, vignette, or colour applied. |
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Saulgau was a small administrative district in upper Württemberg, and like hundreds of similar municipalities across Germany in 1923, it issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — as the Reichsmark collapsed under hyperinflation. By the time notes of this denomination were being printed, the ten-million mark face value represented roughly the cost of a loaf of bread, and the figure would be obsolete within weeks. The Gebr. Edel firm, a local Saulgau printer, produced this note in-house — one of many small regional print shops pressed into emergency monetary service during the crisis months.