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10 000 000 Mark
| Issuer | Stadt Bergisch Gladbach (City of Bergisch Gladbach) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT BERGISCH GLADBACH GUTSCHEIN ÜBER Zehn Millionen Mark Dieser Gutschein wird von den städtischen und allen anderen öffentlichen Kassen in Zahlung genommen. Er verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach Aufkündigung, die in den Bergisch-Gladbacher Zeitungen und wenigstens 2 Kölner Zeitungen erfolgen muß. Die Stadt Bergisch-Gladbach haftet für die Einlösung. Bergisch-Gladbach, den 20. Juli 1923. Der Bürgermeister: HEISS & Co KÖLN-LINDENTHAL. ZEHN MILLIONEN MARK |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green and dark brown, dominated by a large central vignette rendered in a fine line engraving style, showing the historic town hall and market square of Bergisch Gladbach with half-timbered façades, a prominent tower, and surrounding civic buildings under an open sky. The vignette is set within a plain rectangular frame, itself enclosed by a broad guilloche border of repeating wave and scroll motifs. A vertical side panel at left repeats the denomination 'ZEHN MILLIONEN MARK' in Gothic script, and the inscription 'STADT BERGISCH GLADBACH' appears in bold letterpress along the lower margin. |
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Bergisch Gladbach, a mid-sized industrial town east of Cologne, was among the hundreds of German municipalities forced to print their own emergency currency during the hyperinflationary spiral of 1923. By the time this 10-million-Mark denomination was issued, the Reichsmark's collapse was so advanced that notes of this face value were functionally equivalent to small change — sufficient, briefly, for perhaps a loaf of bread before the next day's exchange rate made them worthless.
Heiss & Co. operated out of Köln-Lindenthal and handled notgeld commissions for several Rhenish municipalities that year, which means this note shares its printer with a number of contemporaries from the same regional wave. The Rentenmark reform of November 1923 rendered the entire series obsolete almost immediately after issue.